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About the Authors
J. Bradley Cousins, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, University of Ottawa. His interests include collaborative approaches to evaluation, evaluation use, and evaluation capacity building. Contact: [email protected]
Lyn M. Shulha, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Her interests include evaluation use, collaborative approaches to evaluation, and student assessment.
Elizabeth Whitmore, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita, School of Social Work, Carleton University. Her interests include collaborative approaches to evaluation, gender issues in evaluation, and social justice.
Hind Al Hudib, Ph.D. is an independent consultant in Ottawa and recent Ph.D. graduate, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. Her interests include evaluation policy and organizational capacity for evaluation and collaborative approaches to evaluation.
Nathalie Gilbert, Ph.D. is a Director at the Champlain Local Health Integration Network and Ph.D. graduate, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. Her interests include collaborative approaches to evaluation, evaluation in health systems, and patient engagement.
Appendix 1: COVE Promotional Activities for the CAE Principles
2014, October: Single paper session, American Evaluation Association, Denver, USA
2015, January: Half-day workshop, Swiss Evaluation Society, Geneva, Switzerland
2015, February: Half-day workshop, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2015, March: Half-day workshop, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2015, May: Expert lecture, Canadian Evaluation Society, Montréal, Canada
2015, December: Video: CRECS Ten Minute Window, 3(4). www.crecs.uottawa.ca/publications/ten-minute-window/evidence-based-principles
2016, September: Two-hour seminar, Israeli Professional Evaluation Association, Jerusalem, Israel
2016, October: Two-hour seminar, International Congress on Palliative Care, Montréal, Canada
2016, October: Full-day workshop, European Evaluation Society, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2016, November: Full-day workshop, American Evaluation Society, Atlanta, USA
2017, February: Virtual coffee break session, American Evaluation Association, hosted from Clearwater FL, USA
2017, May: Keynote Address, L’avaluacio participative, Conference on Youth Empowerment, Barcelona, Spain
2017, June: Full-day workshop, Canadian Evaluation Society, Vancouver, Canada
2017, October: Two-hour seminar, Fed Gov, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017, October: Half-day workshop, Universidad National de Jan Juan, San Juan, Argentina
2017, October: Half-day workshop, Universidad Federal de Espirito Santos, Vittoria, Brazil
2017, November: Full-day workshop, American Evaluation Association, Washington, D.C., USA
2017, December: Half-day workshop, Turkish Monitoring and Evaluation Society, Ankara, Turkey
2017, December: Half-day workshop, Jordanian Development Evaluation Association (EvalJordan), Amman, Jordan
Appendix 2: Launch of CAE Principles (E-mail/Listserv Text)
Greetings. On behalf of the COVE research team (Collaborative Opportunities to Value Evaluation: Brad Cousins, Lyn Shula, Elizabeth Whitmore, Hind Al Hudib, Nathalie Gilbert) it is my very great pleasure to introduce Principles to Guide Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation (CAE). We would like to take this opportunity to promote their application and use.
The eight evidence-based Principles were developed on the basis of data from 320 practising evaluators in North America and beyond and were recently published in the American Journal of Evaluation (Shulha at al., 2016, vol. 37, no. 2).
Please find attached for your convenience and use two resource documents:
1 A brochure-style document that describes the Principles and potential applications in i) guiding CAE practice, ii) reflecting on the implementation and consequences of recent CAE projects, iii) evaluation policy review, iv) structuring professional development, and v) framing research on CAE practice (as well as other possible applications).
2 An indicator document that provides items for consideration with respect to the application of each of the eight CAE principles.
The eight Principles are to be: used as a set, although individual principles may be differentially weighted depending on context; considered to be interdependent and overlapping; and recognized as being nonlinear, albeit with some adherence to a loose temporal order.
For further information about the principles please follow this link to a short video presentation: http://crecs.uottawa.ca/publications/ten-minute-window/evidence-based-principles
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