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Who Owns it? A Discussion Concerning the Ownership of Data in an Evaluation Setting
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| Nicholas G Hoffman, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, nghoff@siu.edu
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| Meghan Lowery, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, mrlowery@siu.edu
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| Seth Berry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, sethb85@siu.edu
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Through evaluation, data often become available that engage the scientific interests of the evaluator. What happens when intriguing data are owned by stakeholders that do not want data to be distributed throughout the scientific community? From an ethical standpoint, who owns the data? This presentation will discuss real-world situations in which the owners of data objected to the use for scientific research purposes. This presentation will also address other situations in which the ownership of materials prompted contention between stakeholders and evaluators. This presentation will focus on ethical concerns with the determination of data ownership and who may or may not use it.
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Mind the Gap: Evaluation Purposes, Processes and Products in the Minds of Clients and Evaluators
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| A Rae Clementz, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, clementz@illinois.edu
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This session analyzes an observed gap in clients' and evaluators' understanding of the purposes, processes and products in three specific cases. These three evaluations were unique and different in their scope, target audience, character and development of the program, as well as in geographic, social, and political contexts. Yet they shared a common feature in that there were persistent issues around one or more of the three P's (purpose, processes, and products) of the evaluation. This session will explore several issues that appear to contribute to this enduring gap in perception and consequential expectations of the evaluation, (1) multiple layers of 'client,' (2) prior experience and working knowledge (Kennedy, 1983) of both clients and evaluators, and (3) communication issues stemming from differences in language use and terminology. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the implications of this gap, and of possible means and consequences of attending to it.
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Cultural Competence in Context of Evaluation: Addressing Meaning, Complexities and Benefits From Evaluation Practice
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| Gargi Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, gargi@siu.edu
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| Steven Middleton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, scmidd@siu.edu
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Economic interdependence among nations, as well as growing demographic diversity within United States has identified cultural competency as a quintessential skill to have in every field of human service including program evaluation. Applied Research Consultants (ARC), is a vertical practicum built within the doctoral program of Applied Psychology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and is also a graduate student run consulting firm. ARC conducts professional evaluations and provides other services (e.g., job analysis, survey research, etc.) to a diverse body of clients both in and outside the University community. Current ARC associates under training and past ARC associates who are now working in different fields as evaluators are interviewed to get an idea about how new evaluators define cultural competency, relating their work experience with culturally competent evaluation and evaluation practices and the implications and importance of using cultural competence in evaluation.
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