Collaborative Evaluations In Practice

Author : Liliana Rodríguez-Campos,Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804784856

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Collaborative Evaluations by Liliana Rodríguez-Campos,Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez Pdf

Collaborative Evaluations: Step-by-Step, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide for evaluators who aim to master collaborative practice. Liliana Rodríguez-Campos and Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez present their Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) with its six major components: identify the situation, clarify the expectations, establish a collective commitment, ensure open communication, encourage effective practices, and follow specific guidelines. Fully updated to reflect the state-of-the-art in the field, each core chapter addresses one component of the model, providing step-by-step guidance, as well as helpful tips for successful application. To further demonstrate the utility of the MCE, this new edition includes recurring vignettes about several evaluators and clients, illustrating frequent questions and specific challenges that arise when evaluators take a collaborative approach. Drawing on a wide range of collaborative evaluations conducted in the business, nonprofit, and education sectors, this precise and easy-to-understand guide is ideal for students and practitioners who want to use its tools immediately.

Author : Liliana Rodríguez-Campos
Publisher : IAP
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623969905

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Collaborative Evaluations in Practice by Liliana Rodríguez-Campos Pdf

One of the reasons some groups are more effective than others is collaboration; people implement evaluative decisions more willingly if they have collaborated on those decisions. This book introduces real-world applications of the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) in business, nonprofit, and education to make collaborative evaluations more accessible to you. The MCE is a systematic framework that revolves around a set of six interactive components specific to conducting a collaborative evaluation. It represents a practical attempt to capture the essence of collaborative evaluation from various perspectives in order to offer a valuable understanding of different stances that often arise when using this type of approach. A multidisciplinary team of authors enriches the diverse perspectives of this book with their international and cross-cultural expertise. The intention is to share a deeper understanding of how this approach is applied to build collaborative relationships within an evaluation, recognizing the level of collaboration will vary in each situation.

Author : Lori L. Bakken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190885397

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Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth by Lori L. Bakken Pdf

Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answer those questions, and analyzing, interpreting, and reporting the evaluation's findings so they are useful and meaningful for key stakeholders. The text concludes with a chapter devoted to the shifting landscape of evaluation practice as it faces complex systems and issues that are shaped by society. Additionally, the author provides a list of knowledge and skills needed to adapt to a changing landscape and encourages organizations to use evaluation as a mechanism for learning and adapting to change. Her orientation toward community-based approaches and social justice prevail throughout the book's content and align well with a reader's desire to be inclusive and accountable in programing efforts. Nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students will find this book helpful for understanding basic program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies.

Author : J. Bradley Cousins
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544344638

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Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation by J. Bradley Cousins Pdf

Editor J. Bradley Cousins and colleagues meet the needs of evaluators seeking to implement collaborative and participatory approaches to evaluation in Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation: Principles in Use. Using a multi-phase empirical process to develop and validate a set of principles to guide collaborative approaches to evaluation, the book outlines the principles that the team developed, and then provides case studies of how these principles have been applied in practice. The case studies draw on programs globally in education, health, and community development. The book is an invaluable supplementary text for program evaluation courses where students’ projects are focused on more collaborative and participatory approaches, and it is an essential resource for practicing evaluators and those who commission program evaluations.

Author : David M. Fetterman,Liliana Rodr¡guez-Campos,Ann P. Zukoski,and Contributors
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462532827

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Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation by David M. Fetterman,Liliana Rodr¡guez-Campos,Ann P. Zukoski,and Contributors Pdf

"Collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluations are stakeholder involvement approaches to evaluation. They address concerns about relevance, trust, and use in evaluation. They also build capacity and respond to pressing evaluation needs in the global community. The chapters in this book are designed to help further distinguish one approach from another. The essentials of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation are presented in separate chapters in order to help practitioners compare and contrast approaches. In addition, case examples are used to illustrate what each approach looks like in practice"--

Author : Rita G. O'Sullivan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780761925460

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Practicing Evaluation by Rita G. O'Sullivan Pdf

Using actual cases from educational, health-related, and business settings, the author shows readers how to do evaluation using a collaborative approach - an approach which actually involves stakeholders in the evaluation process.

Author : Scott Reeves,Janet Alexanian,Deborah Kendall-Gallagher,Todd Dorman,Simon Kitto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351798679

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Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings by Scott Reeves,Janet Alexanian,Deborah Kendall-Gallagher,Todd Dorman,Simon Kitto Pdf

This practical and evidence-based workbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in critical care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery, it looks both at collaboration between professionals and between patients and/or family members. Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings: identifies the issues relating to the "current state" of collaboration in critical care through a series of assessment activities; provides a series of interventional activities which can address shortfalls of collaboration previously identified; and offers advice on generating evidence for the effects of any interventions implemented. The activities presented in this book are based on extensive empirical research, ensuring this book takes into account the everyday work environment of professionals in critical care units. It is suitable for practitioners and educators, as well as patient safety leads and managers.

Author : David M. Fetterman,Liliana Rodríguez-Campos,Ann P. Zukoski,and Contributors
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462532858

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Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation by David M. Fetterman,Liliana Rodríguez-Campos,Ann P. Zukoski,and Contributors Pdf

From pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the authors focus on the role of the evaluator, who may be in charge of the evaluation, share control, or serve as a "critical friend," leaving stakeholders in control. Practitioners are guided to select and implement the most appropriate framework for the purpose and scope of a given evaluation and the needs of community members and funders. For each approach, a chapter on essential features is followed by two chapters presenting actual sample evaluations--for example, early childhood and community health initiatives, an aquarium, a project with Google, and more. The concluding chapter discusses similarities and circumstances in which the approaches can be combined.

Author : Lisa B. Fiore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136831683

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Assessment of Young Children by Lisa B. Fiore Pdf

In an era of standards and norms where assessment tends to minimize or dismiss individual differences and results in punitive outcomes or no action at all, Assessment of Young Children provides teachers with an approach to assessment that is in the best interest of both children and their families. Author Lisa B. Fiore explores a variety of ways to study and assess young children in their natural environments, while stressing the importance of bringing children and families into the process. This lively text helps the reader learn how to cultivate developmentally appropriate practice, create appropriate expectations, examine children’s work, interact in groups, and improve their teacher behavior. Accounts of real experiences from children, families, teachers, and administrators provide on-the-ground models of assessment stategies and demonstrate how children are affected. Assessment of Young Children explores both standardized and authentic assessment, work sampling systems, and observation skills. Readers will walk away with strategies for communicating information about children and portfolio assessment, and how the use of formal and informal methods of observation, documentation, and assessment are connected to teacher and student inquiry. Assessment of Young Children encourages an assessment strategy where the child remains the focus and explores how collaboration with children, families, and colleagues creates an image—not a diagnosis—of the child that is empowering rather than constraining. Special Features Include: Case Study examples that anchor the concepts presented in the chapters and engage readers more deeply in the content. "Now what?" and "Avenues for Inquiry" throughout the book present students with concrete extensions of the material that they may pursue for further investigation

Author : Lori L. Bakken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190885380

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Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth by Lori L. Bakken Pdf

Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answer those questions, and analyzing, interpreting, and reporting the evaluation's findings so they are useful and meaningful for key stakeholders. The text concludes with a chapter devoted to the shifting landscape of evaluation practice as it faces complex systems and issues that are shaped by society. Additionally, the author provides a list of knowledge and skills needed to adapt to a changing landscape and encourages organizations to use evaluation as a mechanism for learning and adapting to change. Her orientation toward community-based approaches and social justice prevail throughout the book's content and align well with a reader's desire to be inclusive and accountable in programing efforts. Nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students will find this book helpful for understanding basic program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies.

Author : J. Bradley Cousins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Evaluation
ISBN : 154434466X

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Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation by J. Bradley Cousins Pdf

Author : John N. Bray
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761906479

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Collaborative Inquiry in Practice by John N. Bray Pdf

Collaborative Inquiry in Practice is an invitation and guide for people interested in pursuing a more imaginative and holistic approach to human inquiry. The reader is guided step-by-step through the theory and practice of collaborative inquiry: - the key ideas from pragmatism and phenomenological traditions; - the relationship of collaborative inquiry with other action-oriented methods of inquiry; - the conduct of collaborative inquiry, from forming a group to constructing knowledge The authors demonstrate how effective collaborative inquiry demystifies research and makes learning more accessible. The guidance provided is equally relevant to professional and academic settings.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309372824

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Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes Pdf

Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient and productive work in promoting health and treating patients. The vision for these collaborations is one where different health and/or social professionals share a team identity and work closely together to solve problems and improve delivery of care. Although the value of interprofessional education (IPE) has been embraced around the world - particularly for its impact on learning - many in leadership positions have questioned how IPE affects patent, population, and health system outcomes. This question cannot be fully answered without well-designed studies, and these studies cannot be conducted without an understanding of the methods and measurements needed to conduct such an analysis. This Institute of Medicine report examines ways to measure the impacts of IPE on collaborative practice and health and system outcomes. According to this report, it is possible to link the learning process with downstream person or population directed outcomes through thoughtful, well-designed studies of the association between IPE and collaborative behavior. Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes describes the research needed to strengthen the evidence base for IPE outcomes. Additionally, this report presents a conceptual model for evaluating IPE that could be adapted to particular settings in which it is applied. Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes addresses the current lack of broadly applicable measures of collaborative behavior and makes recommendations for resource commitments from interprofessional stakeholders, funders, and policy makers to advance the study of IPE.

Author : Tory Cox,Terence Fitzgerald,Michelle Alvarez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780197585184

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The Art of Becoming Indispensable by Tory Cox,Terence Fitzgerald,Michelle Alvarez Pdf

Despite their institutional preparation and lived experiences, new school social workers encounter numerous practices, political considerations, community engagement strategies, and seemingly fundamental elements involved in the learning curve needed to move from entry-level to proficiency. The Art of Being Indispensable What School Social Workers Need to Know in Their First Three Years of Practice contains content specific to what they will need in their first three years of practice, bridging the learning gap from their academic preparation to early employment in P-12 settings. Organized into four sections - The Host Environment, The Macro School Social Worker, Integration and Intervention, and School Social Worker Sustainability - the content of the book is framed by a mixed-methods study on the needs of new practitioners. It is an indispensable guide that new school social workers can consult to effectively execute their roles and responsibilities.

Author : J. Bradley Cousins,Jill Anne Chouinard
Publisher : IAP
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617358036

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Participatory Evaluation Up Close by J. Bradley Cousins,Jill Anne Chouinard Pdf

Empiricism provides the backbone of knowledge creation within social science disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) and applied domains of study (e.g., education, administration) alike. Yet, relative to such domains of inquiry, comparatively little empirical research on evaluation has occurred, and the research knowledge base been infrequently synthesized and integrated to influence theory and practice. The proposed book aims to fill this void with regard to participatory evaluation, a set of collaborative approaches to evaluation that is receiving considerable attention of late, including a growing body of empirical studies. The authors begin in Part 1 with the delineation of a widely known and familiar conceptual framework for participatory evaluation. They then use the framework in Part 2 as a guide to conducting an extensive review of the extant empirical knowledge base in participatory evaluation, culminating in a thematic analysis of what we know about the approach. In Part 3 the authors focus on methodological considerations of doing research on participatory evaluation through a critique of existing studies and an explication of design choices drawn from their own research program. The book concludes in Part 4 with implications for moving the field forward in terms of important research questions, methodological direction and evaluation practice. This book will be of central interest to evaluation theorists and to those who choose to conduct research on evaluation; appeal will be conceptual and methodological. It will provide excellent supplementary reading for graduate students, many of whom seek to develop empirical studies on evaluation as part of their graduate programs. Rife with examples of participatory evaluation in practice, and practical implications, the book will also benefit evaluation practitioners with an interest in evaluation capacity building and participatory and collaborative approaches to practice.