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Evaluation in Australasia: An Overview of Recent Developments
Get PDFEvaluation activities continue to develop throughout Australasia as evidenced by the Australasia Evaluation Society (AES) expanding its circle of influence and reaching out to its neighbors in Vietnam and China. Government officials and private sector personnel from these Asian neighbors visited Australia in October 2006 in an effort to learn more about evaluation in Australia.
Using Strong Evaluation Designs in Developing Countries: Experience and Challenges
Get PDFIn his article in the November 2006 JMDE, Thomas Cook reviewed the current debate on the role of randomized control trials (RCT). While his article focused on educational research, the issues raised, and the responses by Michael Scriven (2006) and Jane Davidson (2006), highlighted the broader issues currently being debated on the need for more ‘rigorous’ program evaluation in all sectors. The purpose of this article is to extend the discussion to the field of international development evaluation, reviewing the different approaches which can be adopted to rigorous evaluation methodology and their applicability in a development setting
Unlearning Some of our Social Scientist Habits
Get PDFAccording to the organizational learning literature, some of the most important learning an organization can do is in the form of organizational unlearning—getting rid of erroneous or dysfunctional knowledge, habits, and practices. Simply adding new skills, behaviors, and ways of thinking isn’t enough. Without some explicit attention to the process of unlearning, existing knowledge and know-how becomes a barrier to constructive change and new learning
Review of Evaluation and Program Planning: Volume 30, Issue 1
Get PDFThe latest issue of Evaluation and Program Planning offers eleven general-interest articles covering a range of topics related to professional and academic evaluation activities. Unlike some previous issues that have focused on a special topic or interest area, this quarter’s publication offers articles from a wide range of subject areas and disciplines. As such, the following review provides a brief overview of each article, in publication order, instead of providing a more in-depth review of the work of select authors
“Predictive Evaluation”: Some Comments on Michael Scriven’s Article in the June 2007 Issue of JMDE
Get PDFResponse to Michael Scriven's "Predictive Evaluation" from Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 4(7), https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v4i7.26
A Feasibility Study of Microfinance for Chinese Disabled Farmers
Get PDFThe Chinese government supports development aid to persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the form of microfinance. The nation’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Plan for PWDs (2001-2010) and the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Rural Disabled Persons (2006-2010) spell providing quality rehabilitation out that the main methods to help poor rural disabled persons include significantly increasing the amount of funds for their use as well as ion services for them. The local government at every level has the responsibility to assist disabled persons
Why Does the Evaluation of Research Need to be Reformed?
Get PDFThe evaluation of scientific research already has an extensive and well-structured literature on its objects, motives, methods and procedures, criteria and standards, difficulties, and results. It hardly needs elaborate philosophical underpinnings as there is normally, but not always, a consensus around what is truly important and valuable research. Simultaneously, most governments around the world recognize that current methods for evaluating research for funding purposes are not sufficient for current needs, and they are now funding efforts to find new and improved methods. In the United States alone, as evidenced by the concerns of the American Council on Competitiveness, the initiative of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Science Foundation’s funding of studies to build a science of science and innovation policy, a primary interest is assessment to understand how to improve research so that it can effectively contribute to national goals. Similar efforts exist throughout Europe, in Japan, and in Korea. In early 2008, a volume of New Directions for Evaluation (NDE), guest edited by myself and Michael Scriven, titled “Reforming the Evaluation of Research” is scheduled for publication. This volume, devoted to reforming the evaluation of research, is intended to contribute to the process of addressing this analytical need. It represents the thinking and work of some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners who have devoted themselves to improving the way that research is evaluated. Without staking any great claim about reforming research itself, a field of action that has rarely been out of the public eye, ultimately the suggestions found in that volume should indirectly result in increasing the quality of, and payoff from, research that is done, reducing the cost of doing it, and lending public credibility to the manner in which research is funded
Evaluation, Sustainable Development, and the Environment in the South Pacific
Get PDFThis article outlines the Results-Based Evaluation (RBE) framework proposed for the ex-post assessment of the National Environmental Management Strategies (NEMS) in 12 small-island developing states (SIDS) in the South Pacific. It gives an overview of the methods and basis of developing an evaluation framework in the context of SIDS in the region. Framework development is a) process-based because it integrated contextual, conceptual and empirical parameters for evaluation design, and b) spatially oriented because it involved vulnerability assessment, situational analysis and workshop-based consultation in Kiribati and Samoa. It concludes that RBE has potential value in the review process for updating the environmental strategies and action plans and for measuring what has been achieved within the managerial process for sustainable development in the region
Introducing the Irish Evaluation Network
Get PDFThe Irish Evaluation Network (IEN) is a network for individuals involved or interested in forwarding the theory and practice of high quality evaluation in an Irish context. Established in 2002, to date it has operated as an informal network guided by a voluntary steering grou
Introduction
Get PDFThe seventh issue of this journal is going online tomorrow, and contains a number of papers on methodological issues as well as reports from around the globe that tell us about the progress of evaluation in distant lands--in this issue, there are contributions from Ireland, China, the South Pacific, Australasia, and one with ten authors from the ‘newly independent states’ (ex-USSR)