| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Grad Students on Grad Students: Evaluating Peers in a Professional Context |
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Roundtable Presentation 248 to be held in MISSION A on Thursday, Nov 11, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM
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Sponsored by the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Matthew Linick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mlinic1@gmail.com
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| Marjorie Dorime-Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, dorime1@illinois.edu
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| Seung Won Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hong29@illinois.edu
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| Abstract:
The College of Education at a major research I university will be holding its first college-wide graduate student conference this spring. The conference was developed and organized by an interdisciplinary planning committee composed of College of Education graduate students. This committee commissioned a separate team of graduate students to complete a formative and summative evaluation of the conference. Conducting an evaluation of a fellow graduate student initiative in the same college created an interesting context for the evaluation team that offered unique challenges and opportunities. As graduate students and beginning evaluators we struggled with assumptions about our expertise and roles as evaluators, as well as negotiating a professional evaluator-client relationship with our peers, friends, and colleagues.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
A Student-Generated Collaborative Approach to Developing New Evaluator Competencies |
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Roundtable Presentation 248 to be held in MISSION A on Thursday, Nov 11, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM
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Sponsored by the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Jason Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, jblack21@utk.edu
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| Pam Bishop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pbaird@utk.edu
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| Shayne Harrison, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, sharrison1976@comcast.net
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| Susanne Kaesbauer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, skaesbau@utk.edu
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| Thelma Woodard, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, twoodar2@utk.edu
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| Abstract:
The purpose of this discussion is to provide an effective method for improving new evaluator skills through collaborative efforts between new and advanced graduate students. Traditional academic models for training in evaluation often include coursework, simulations, role-play, and a practicum (Trevisan 2004). In some programs, evaluation students are taught evaluation fundamentals and simultaneously required to conduct evaluation projects independently from start to finish during the first year of graduate school. Although knowledgeable about evaluation competencies, the knowledge, skills and abilities involved in conducting an entire evaluation are often beyond new evaluators’ expertise. Nadler and Cundiff (2009) assert that these skills can’t be sharpened through academic-based training alone. In this roundtable discussion, students will discuss alternative qualitative and quantitative approaches to the same evaluation problem as a collaborative approach to improving their evaluator competencies.
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