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Teaching Qual Inside a Quant World
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| John Stevenson, University of Rhode island, jsteve@uri.edu
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This paper presents my reasoning and my teaching methods for incorporating qualitative perspectives into a course on evaluation that is primarily quantitative in its approach. Engaging students in a dialogue that questions assumptions and offers opportunities for reflection can enhance learning and practice of quantitative evaluation.
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Integrating Social Justice Into Evaluation Teaching: Opportunities and Strategies
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| Veronica Thomas, Howard University, vthomas@howard.edu
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| Anna Madison, University of Massachusetts, Boston, anna.madison@umb.edu
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This presentation will argue that social justice should be included in evaluation education as a fundamental value in evaluation practice. A social justice orientation will provide students with a perspective that will enable them to challenge existing evaluation hegemonic ontological, epistemological, theoretical, and methodological practices that diminish groups at the margins of society and normalize injustice. We will present four major areas where educators can intersect social justice and evaluation in classroom and field experiences:(a) theoretical knowledge, (b) methodological knowledge, (c) interpersonal knowledge, and (d) professionalism. Further, we will examine how a social justice orientation can be evident in pedagogical approaches and the professors’ articulation of students’ expected learning outcomes. Sample activities will be provided that educators can utilize to integrate social justice, evaluation theory, and methodology in graduate training in an effort to produce a more critical evaluator.
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Developing Evaluation Reports That Are Useful, User-Friendly, and Used
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| Tamara M Walser, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, walsert@uncw.edu
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The purpose of this presentation is to share an instructional strategy I use for teaching graduate students in Educational Leadership how to develop evaluation reports that are useful, user-friendly, and used. The strategy is based on the concept of storytelling and includes: (a) creating multiple tables, graphs, and figures as part of the data analysis process to uncover the story the data tell; (b) outlining the story the data tell, using headings and subheadings to organize the layers of the story; (c) drafting a narrative story in clear and concise language; (d) choosing the “illustrations” for the story—the tables, graphs, and figures that BEST illustrate the key points of the story. The presentation will include a brief review of the literature on evaluation reporting, a demonstration of the instructional strategy, and examples of student-developed evaluation reports.
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