Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE)
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Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People
Get PDFA review of the book Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People by Kim Sabo Flores, published in 2008 by Jossey-Bass
JMDE - Five Years in Review
Get PDF2008 marks the fifth year of publication for JMDE. The growth of JMDE, whether measured in terms of readership or in the evolution of ideas, reflects the increasing importance of evaluation, not as a separate process, but more as the development of an evaluative state of mind. Just in terms of readership, at the milestone 5th issue, JMDE had over 1750 “committed readers”—those who requested notification of publication of new issues, the website had over 19,000 hits according to our own measure, but up to 30,000 per day according to independent estimates by Lars Balzar
The OECD/DAC Criteria for International Development Evaluations: An Assessment and Ideas for Improvement
Get PDFThe five evaluation criteria from the Development Assistance Committee of the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD/DAC) have been a strong foundation for international development evaluation since 1991. They have been the most prominent and widely adopted criteria used for aid evaluation by most bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, as well as international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). However, critiques of the quality of development aid evaluation are still abundant. Thus, it is reasonable to question how those criteria can be improved. This paper provides a critical look at the five DAC criteria and proposes major recommendations for changes, including revisions of definitions, addition of key missing criteria, and discussions about the level of importance of the criteria. If followed, these changes could contribute for increasing the quality of evaluations for the purposes of (re)funding, program changes, and other decision options
Methods in Educational Research: From Theory to Practice
Get PDFA review of the book Methods in Educational Research: From Theory to Practice by Maguerite G. Lodico, Dean T. Spaulding, and Katherine H. Voegtle published in 2006 by Jossey-Bass
In This Issue
Get PDFAs JDME enters its fifth year of publication, I would like to take a moment to thank the journal’s readers, contributors, and editorial team, without whom it would cease to exist. Thank you. Also, we would like to welcome new associate editor Margaret Richardson
Academic Case Managers: Supporting the Educational Life of Urban Middle School Students of Poverty
No full textFor the past eight years, Midwest Educational Research Consortium (MERC), located at Western Michigan University, received two multi-million dollar grants through a U.S. Department of Education program entitled Gaining Early Awareness and Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). GEAR UP is a school/university partnership using a cohort model with the goal of increasing the number of students of poverty who graduate from high school and go on to post secondary education.The MERC/GEAR UP project partners with two universities, two community colleges, and four school districts in Michigan and Ohio
Commentary on "An Association to Improve Evaluation of Development Aid"
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The Economist's Fallacy
Get PDFThe economist’s definition of cost is totally insensitive to major differences in true cost
Advocacy Impact Evaluation
Get PDFAdvocacy and policy change evaluations focus on policy as the unit of analysis rather than the more traditional program or project. Advocacy evaluation, like all evaluation, is guided by the profession’s Principles and Standards. Advocacy evaluation can be, and should be, utilization-focused. That means focusing the evaluation on intended use by intended users, and evaluating the evaluation by that standard
Peer Review of Abstracts Submitted to the Graduate Student and New Evaluators Topical Interest Group for the 2006 American Evaluation Association Conference
No full textPeer review is an umbrella term that refers to a class of selection and oversight practices, including the familiar mechanisms of the review of proposals submitted for funding, of manuscripts for scholarly publications, and of personnel qualifications and portfolios for selection and promotion. Peer review has long been a cornerstone of modern scientific method premised on the assumption that those within a discipline are best suited to assess the work of others within that field. As such, it is also frequently employed to evaluate proposals submitted for professional meetings such as the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). This paper presents a blind peer review method developed by AEA’s Graduate Student & New Evaluators (GS&NE) Topical Interest Group (TIG) in an effort to construct an impartial and reliable process in proposal selection. Implications for conference review processes, AEA, and the field of evaluation in general are discussed