| Session Title: Using Artistic Strategies in Collecting, Analyzing and Representing Evaluations |
| Skill-Building Workshop 553 to be held in California A on Friday, Nov 4, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM |
| Sponsored by the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Michelle Searle, Queen's University, michellesearle@yahoo.com |
| Lynda Weaver, Bruyere Continuing Care, lweaver@bruyere.org |
| Abstract: The field of evaluation is methodologically responsive and now features a spectrum of quantitative, qualitative and mixed method approaches (e.g., Greene, 1999; Greene & Caracelli, 1997; House, 1993; McClintock, 2004). In many ways, evaluators have been leaders in methodological innovation by continually reshaping themselves to deal with complex questions. Given this willingness to consider a variety of questions and to be methodologically flexible, it is time to explore ways that arts-informed approaches to evaluation offer value with current accepted orientations of evaluation. This skill-building workshop, developed on theory of arts in research and evaluation, provides hands-on exploration of arts techniques within evaluation practice. The workshop uses a simulated learning activity that unfolds over three phases to involve participants in arts-informed data collection activities, ways of analyzing art generated in an evaluation, and forms for representing data. No art experience is necessary, only a willingness to create and share ideas. |