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Authors:Betty Onyura, Emilia Main, Claudia Barned, Alexandra Wong, Tin D. Vo, Nivetha Chandran, Nazi Torabi, Deena M. Hamza
There is growing recognition of the complex moral and ethical tensions associated with evaluation practice. However, there are scant evidence-informed frameworks for cultivating ethical awareness or informing ethical deliberation across the evaluation landscape. Thus, we aimed to synthesize research evidence on evaluation ethics, and draw on these findings to develop an evidence-informed evaluation ethics framework.
Authors: Samuel KOUAKOU et al
Les prémices de l’Organisation internationale de coopération en matière d’évaluation datent de 1997. Elles sont le fruit de l’initiative de plusieurs associations nationales d’évaluation qui permettent alors de placer l’évaluation au cœur des débats internationaux.
Presenter: Celeste Ghiano, PhD
How about really shaking up the foundations of Evaluation practice? In this initiative, we believe that changing practices begins with changing concepts and understanding contexts, bringing new (and not at all new) ontologies, to change epistemologies and transform methodologies.
2024-10-23
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Graduate Scholarship Program
2024-10-21
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Communications,Mentoring
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Communications
Call for Articles for upcoming special issue "AI, populism, authoritarianism, and post-truth: What implications for evaluation?"
2024-10-09
Welcome to Our New CES Chapter Representatives
2024-10-07
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A Great Career
In 1989, I won the CES Student Essay Competition and a free trip to that year’s conference in Toronto. So I joined CES under a student membership. I realized there and then that everything my then professor and mentor, CES Fellow Dr. Anita Myers, had said about evaluation was true – it is a great career opportunity.
Since then, I’ve been a member for more than 30 years. I particularly enjoy the e-news blast that brings all sorts of opportunities to my attention every week.
I found the process of applying for the Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation to be one of the best opportunities ever to reflect on my practice. As an external evaluator, I can’t say I’ve ever felt “isolated” as an evaluator, but through my CES membership, I’ve gained a lot knowing that I’m part of something larger, professional and amazing.
I still speak with a new or emerging evaluator every few months and the first thing I tell them is to join CES and connect with the mother ship. The second thing I tell them is to get involved with their local Chapter to begin making connections and getting the lay of the land. My CES colleagues have now become, and will remain, friends for life, even when my logic model days are over.