Event Date: 2024-07-23 TEI Deadline: 2024-07-18
Data analysis involves creativity, sensitivity and rigor. In its most basic form qualitative data analysis involves some sort of labeling, coding and clustering in order to make sense of data collected from evaluation fieldwork, interviews, and/or document analysis. This intermediate level workshop builds on basic coding and categorizing familiar to most evaluators, and extends the array of strategies available to support rigorous interpretations.
Event Date: 2024-07-24 TEI Deadline: 2024-07-19
Strategic planning is becoming a common practice for governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and collaborations. The severe stresses facing these entities make strategic planning more important and necessary than ever. For strategic planning to be really effective it should include systematic learning informed by evaluation. If that happens, the chances of mission fulfillment and long-term organizational survival are also enhanced. In other words, thinking, acting, and learning strategically and evaluatively are necessary complements.
Event Date: 2024-07-25 TEI Deadline: 2024-07-22
Early work in embedding Appreciative Inquiry/Appreciative evaluation is known for its intentionality in crafting compelling questions about successful experiences, inviting affirming multi-stakeholder engagement, generating insightful stories about lived experience, and grounding the evaluation in a compelling vision of the future. Twenty years later, research in positive psychology has shown that the contribution of Appreciative Evaluation and other positive psychology tools center around the attention it offers to the intrapersonal experience and user experience (UX) of those engaged in evaluation – evaluation managers, evaluators, participants, commissioners, and other interested parties. When individuals engaged in evaluation and have a productive and constructive experience, they are more likely to use and embrace evaluation as an opportunity for reflection, learning, improvement, and transformation.
Event Date: 2024-07-26 TEI Deadline: 2024-07-23
Utilization-Focused Evaluation begins with the premise that evaluations should be judged by their utility and actual use; therefore, evaluators should facilitate the evaluation process and design any evaluation with careful consideration of how everything that is done, from beginning to end, will affect use. Use concerns how real people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experience the evaluation process. Therefore, the focus in utilization-focused evaluation is on the intended use by intended users.
Event Date: 2024-08-06 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2024-08-05
This course provides participants with the DAIS approach, a highly participatory, rigorous approach to integrating data, which evaluation teams can use to get from data collection and analysis to a coherent narrative arc and a roadmap for completing the evaluation product. Using this approach, the evaluation team can feel confident that their findings, conclusions, and recommendations represent the story the data tells.