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Session Title: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG Business Meeting and Presentations: Advancing Quality in Evaluation Capacity Building
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Business Meeting and Multipaper Session 121 to be held in PRESIDIO B on Wednesday, Nov 10, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG
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| TIG Leader(s):
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Michelle Baron, The Evaluation Baron LLC, michelle@evaluationbaron.com
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Gary Skolits, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, gskolits@utk.edu
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Stephen J Ruffini, Wested, sruffin@wested.org
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Megan Bennett, Training Evaluation and Metrics, megan_bennett@cable.comcast.com
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| Michelle Baron,
The Evaluation Baron LLC, michelle@evaluationbaron.com
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| Gary Skolits,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, gskolits@utk.edu
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Evaluation Capacity and Quality in Evaluation: Exploring Interrelations
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| Sebastian Lemire, Rambøll Management Consulting, setl@r-m.com
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| Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Rambøll Management Consulting, sni@r-m.com
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| Abstract:
This paper focuses on the interrelations between evaluation capacity (building) (ECB) and quality in evaluation.
Despite some recent contributions on ECB, differing conceptions still exist concerning what constitutes evaluation capacity building, let alone the nature of the capacity being built. This paper discusses different approaches to the definition, purpose, and methods of ECB as well as their implications on evaluation quality.
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What, Me Evaluate? Building the Evaluation Capacity of School District Personnel
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| Patricia Lauer, Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education, patl@rmc.org
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Evaluation is usually a requirement of grant-funded programs. Obtaining a high quality evaluation is a challenge when a grant-funded program is implemented across multiple sites. This is particularly true when data collection depends on site coordinators who have limited evaluation capacity. This paper describes evaluation technical assistance strategies and tools that were used to build the capacities of personnel from 15 school districts to evaluate their grant-funded tobacco prevention programs.
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