Challenges in implementing a participatory evaluation approach: A case study of the Limpopo Literacy Teaching Evaluation Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthews Matome Makgamatha
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Teaching Evaluation ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Evaluation Project

Made in Sweden: The translation of a European evaluation approach

Evaluation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Kettil Nordesjö
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation ◽  
Made In

To understand how evaluation approaches change between contexts, they need to be studied in relation to their social, cultural, organizational and political contexts. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how the European Union evaluation approach, ongoing evaluation, was translated in Swedish public administration. A case study shows how institutional entrepreneurs promote their evaluation norms of participatory evaluation and attach evaluation to a less dominant governance logic in the Swedish evaluation field. This raises questions about the role of the evaluator, evaluation terminology, and the unclear and weak borders of the evaluation field where evaluation approaches can be launched and translated with relative ease.

scholarly journals Peer Observation as teaching evaluation approach: An Attempt to review the research area

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 01098
Author(s):  
Stanislav Michek ◽  
Monika Perutková ◽  
Marie Brichová
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Teaching Evaluation ◽  
Peer Observation ◽  
Evaluation Approach

Assessing Triangulation Across Methodologies, Methods, and Stakeholder Groups: The Joys, Woes, and Politics of Interpreting Convergent and Divergent Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Campbell ◽  
Rachael Goodman-Williams ◽  
Hannah Feeney ◽  
Giannina Fehler-Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Evaluation Project ◽  
Collection Methods

The purpose of this study was to develop triangulation coding methods for a large-scale action research and evaluation project and to examine how practitioners and policy makers interpreted both convergent and divergent data. We created a color-coded system that evaluated the extent of triangulation across methodologies (qualitative and quantitative), data collection methods (observations, interviews, and archival records), and stakeholder groups (five distinct disciplines/organizations). Triangulation was assessed for both specific data points (e.g., a piece of historical/contextual information or qualitative theme) and substantive findings that emanated from further analysis of those data points (e.g., a statistical model or a mechanistic qualitative assertion that links themes). We present five case study examples that explore the complexities of interpreting triangulation data and determining whether data are deemed credible and actionable if not convergent.

scholarly journals Empowerment Evaluation: A Case Study of Citywide Implementation Within an HIV Prevention Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Phillips ◽  
Peter Lindeman ◽  
Christian N. Adames ◽  
Emily Bettin ◽  
Christopher Bayston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Learning Focused

HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions but have largely overlooked the complex environment in which these interventions are implemented, including other programs funded to do similar work. The Evaluation Center was funded by the City of Chicago in 2015 to conduct a citywide evaluation of all HIV prevention programming. This article will describe our novel approach to adapt the principles and methods of the empowerment evaluation approach, to effectively engage with 20 city-funded prevention programs to collect and synthesize multisite evaluation data, and ultimately build capacity at these organizations to foster a learning-focused community.

scholarly journals Increasing End-of-Life Recovery Profit Using Axiomatic Design Principles: A Case of Mobile Phone Keypad

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 866-870
Author(s):  
Lee Guang Beng ◽  
Omar Badrul
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Axiomatic Design ◽  
Axiomatic Approach ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Recovery Potential

Application of axiomatic design (AD) for the purpose of enhancing end-of-life recovery potential of a product has been the main focus of this paper. To demonstrate the usage of AD in this particular area, a case study that involves keypad assemblies of mobile phones is presented. The functional requirements (FR) of the two assemblies were defined differently (only Handset 2 involves refurbishment-related FRs). Using evaluation approach presented by Kwak and Kim (2010), it can be observed that when recovery-related requirements are omitted, application of AD produces a keypad assembly that fulfills the FRs derived from customer needs with more complicated product architecture. In contrast, when recovery-related FRs are included during problem definition using axiomatic approach, the disassemblability of the resulted keypad is improved and thus increasing recovery potential in the event of replacing defective keypad, while satisfying product-related FRs.

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