| Abstract:
Although evaluation is intrinsically involved with values, there is often little guidance provided to evaluators or evaluation commissioners about how to identify and incorporate diverse values that should legitimately be addressed in an evaluation. These values can relate to what are seen to be desirable and undesirable standards of performance, outcomes/impacts, processes and distribution of costs and benefits (for example, whether it is better to choose an option which has the best average impact or the one which is most beneficial for the most disadvantaged). This demonstration will show a range of methods for identifying and clarifying values (including success ranking, benchmarking, dotmocracy, photovoice, critical reference group) and for incorporating diverse values into an overall evaluative judgment (including arithmetic weighting, qualitative weight and sum, cost utility, co-existive evaluation). The demonstration draws on material from BetterEvaluation - an international collaboration that generates and shares information about choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods.
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