| 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:
My First Year as an Internal Evaluator: What I Didn't Know That I Didn't Know |
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Roundtable Presentation 673 to be held in GOLIAD on Friday, Nov 12, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG
and the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Pamela Bishop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pbaird@utk.edu
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| Abstract:
In my few short years working as a professional evaluator, I had always held positions in which I was external to the organization being evaluated. Although the process of program evaluation has never been mundane, external evaluation carried with it the expectation of a certain sequence of events: begin the evaluation process, conduct the evaluation, and close the evaluation. When I accepted my first internal evaluation position in February 2009, I quickly learned I would need to not only redefine my ideas of the way the evaluation process works, but also my ideas of what an evaluator actually does. This roundtable is a forum for discussing the learning journey for new evaluators, graduate students, internal evaluators, or those considering becoming internal evaluators, about what it means (and does not mean) to be an internal evaluator.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Evaluator/ Practitioner Collaborations |
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Roundtable Presentation 673 to be held in GOLIAD on Friday, Nov 12, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG
and the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Angela Moore, National Institute of Justice, angela.moore.parmley@usdoj.gov
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| Winnie Reed, National Institute of Justice, winnie.reed@usdoj.gov
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| Carolyn Block, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, crblock@rcn.com
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| Deshonna Collier-Goubil, National Institute of Justice, deshonnac@hotmail.com
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| Abstract:
Evaluators are often called on to collaborate with practitioners however many young scholars lack the
the practical experience that would inform them about the information that is most needed in the field. Evaluation research requires data, and the gatekeepers to data access and data understanding are often practitioners – including caretakers of large, archived datasets, and direct service providers who collect and maintain client data. Successful collaboration depends on a set of skills not taught in most PhD programs. This roundtable will focus on advice for new evaluators on the benefits of collaboration, alternative roads into research collaborations with practitioners, the skills necessary to create and maintain successful collaborations, barriers to collaboration and how to overcome them, conflicts between differing agendas and work with practitioners, pitfalls and how to avoid them or deal with them, collaborative proposals for funding, designing research that protects confidentiality, collaboration in disseminating the results of the evaluation, and the ways in which collaborations evolve over time. Concrete examples from the field will be discussed at the roundtable.
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