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Using Stakeholder Values to Determine Evaluation Questions in Health Evaluation
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| Robert LaChausse, California State University, San Bernardino, rlachaus@csusb.edu
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Evaluators have long been encouraged to take into account what stakeholders believe to be important when determining evaluation questions and standards. Many approaches to program evaluation emphasize the importance of consulting stakeholders but fail to articulate how one should incorporate the values of stakeholders in determining the evaluation's focus. Although evaluation conclusions are often based on the analysis of data or other evidence, they are often interpreted through the values of stakeholders. The use of stakeholder interviews and checklists can be useful in helping to determine evaluation questions and to increase evaluation use. An innovative approach to identifying stakeholder values and selecting evaluation questions will be presented. This paper will increase participants' competencies in determining evaluation questions and standards while fostering partnerships with diverse stakeholders when evaluating health programs. An example from a health promotion program for an ethnically diverse population will be used to illustrate these concepts and methods.
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The Value in Identifying Best Practices: Moving from Promising to Best
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| Aisha Tucker-Brown, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, atuckerbrown@cdc.gov
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| Rachel Barron-Simpson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rbarronsimpson@cdc.gov
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| Marnie House, ICF Macro, mhouse@icfi.com
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Identifying best practices that can be replicated to achieve a greater impact is an important use of evaluation, but often difficult to accomplish. The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks best practices in heart disease and stroke prevention to assist funded agencies in identifying effective ways to invest resources. First, promising practices are identified through the use of the Systematic Screening and Assessment (SSA) method and then further investigated through rigorous evaluation. Through DHDSP's initial SSA process, three practices were identified as evaluable. The Kaiser Permanente Colorado Hypertension Management Program was rated highest by the expert panel to undergo rigorous evaluation with a focus on identifying core components of the program needed for replication. This presentation will focus on the value of identifying best practices and the process DHDSP is using to identify them for use by their grantees.
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Stakeholder Learning in a Developmental Evaluation
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| Catherine Donnelly, Queen's University, Kingston, donnelyc@queensu.ca
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| Judy Woods, Queen's University, Kingston, judy.woods@queensu.ca
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| King Luu, Queen's University, Kingston, king.luu@queensu.ca
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| Lyn Shulha, Queen's University, lyn.shulha@queensu.ca
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Developmental evaluation is an approach to evaluation that focuses on the development process of a program or organization. A major component involves collaboration with stakeholders, whereby an evaluator's perspective is introduced into the development process. While the literature has described the influence of evaluation on stakeholders and organizations there is little empirical evidence to support the claims of knowledge gain, and changes in behaviour that result from participation in a developmental evaluation.
The purpose of this study was to examine the learning and behavioural changes experienced by a program's development team as they participated in a developmental evaluation. A new day rehabilitation program for stroke patients served as the context for this study. Team members participated in three semi-structured interviews throughout the evaluation. Participants were asked what they had learned about the program and what changes they have made to their practice as a result of the evaluation.
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Successful Strategies for Evaluating Public Health Partnerships
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| Jessica Rice, University of Wisconsin, rice4@wisc.edu
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| Courtenay Kessler, University of Wisconsin, courtenay.kessler@aurora.org
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Funders and community organizations have increasingly emphasized the value of partnerships as an integral part of any successful and sustainable public health intervention. Our evaluation team, housed within an academic setting, provides evaluation services for community organizations and academic partners. Over time, we have had many requests to evaluate the development and growth of community/academic, community/community, and community/government partnerships. Our evaluation approach depends greatly on the partners, timeline and scope of the project. We work with the community groups to help them define the partnerships within their projects and then use a variety of models and tools to evaluate the partnership. This presentation will discuss models of public health partnerships, illustrate the steps we take in evaluating these partnerships, discuss our experiences with several commonly used tools and provide examples of partnerships we have evaluated. We will conclude with practical suggestions for other evaluators asked to perform this task.
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