American Evaluation Association Presentation Materials

You can download materials here from sessions where InSites members were presenters at the American Evaluation Association meeting in November 2008 in Denver.

Pre-session — Human Systems Dynamics Theory Applied to Evaluation Practice

This session was facilitated by Meg Hargreaves of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Beverly Parsons of InSites. It investigates the importance of and how to identify three human system dynamics—organized, self-organizing, and unorganized—within an evaluation, how to align different evaluation designs with different types of human system dynamics and programmatic interventions, how to use basic conditions of self-organizing systems to design data collection and analyze data, and how this system's orientation relates to other evaluation methods.

Here are materials for the pre-session workshop entitled Human Systems Dynamics Theory Applied to Evaluation Practice.

PowerPoint presentation as .ppt

Data Collection Questions to Understand Self-Organizing Dynamics and Evaluative Questions Addressed and Features Within Each Type of Evaluation Design. Handout as .doc

Participant list as .doc

Questions to Guide Attention to Organic Systems. Handout as .doc

Session—Policy and Practice Implications of a Multi-faceted Approach to Building Evaluation Capacity in Community Colleges

Here are materials from the session entitled Policy and Practice Implications of a Multi-faceted Approach to Building Evaluation Capacity in Community Colleges, facilitated by Beverly Parsons and Pat Jessup.

In this session a process for building the capacity of community college faculty to inquire into key issues about their teaching and learning was explored. The process was developed and tested through a National Science Foundation at Bakersfield College in California.

Handout: Inquiry Plan Template as .doc

Handout: Paper: Building Faculty Engagement and a Culture of Inquiry Through CLIPS—Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice as .pdf