| Session Title: Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG Business Meeting and Roundtable Discussion: Good Evaluation Questions: Can I Get a Checklist? |
| Business Meeting Session 519 to be held in Capistrano A on Thursday, Nov 3, 6:10 PM to 7:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building |
| TIG Leader(s): |
| Joseph Bauer, American Cancer Society, joseph.bauer@cancer.org |
| Angela Moore, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cyq6@cdc.gov |
| Jesse Burns, University of Washington, jesseburns1@gmail.com |
| Presenter(s): |
| Sarah Gill, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sgill@cdc.gov |
| Maureen Wilce, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, muw9@cdc.gov |
| Sheri Disler, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sjd9@cdc.gov |
| Abstract: Meaningful evaluation findings are the answers to good evaluation questions. For many of us, asking good evaluation questions is an art, learned by practice. We use our experience to judge how 'good' a question will be in producing useful, actionable findings that reflect stakeholder values. Is there a way to teach this art to others, including new evaluators? Is there a way to distill lessons learned about the quality of evaluation questions? Can we identify factors that make an evaluation question good? As evaluators charged with providing technical assistance for the National Asthma Control Program, our team asks whether it is possible to articulate a set criteria for defining and assessing good evaluation questions. What makes a proposed question explicitly evaluative? In this roundtable we will share our observations in supporting 36 state partners and facilitate a discussion intended to answer the question: 'Can I get a checklist?' |