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The 2005 Workshop program covers various areas of evaluation practice. Presenters are expert practitioners who are nationally and internationally acknowledged as leaders in evaluation theory and practice.
A certificate of attendance will be issued to delegates
at the end of each workshop.
The workshops have been designed for three levels of experience:
New to the field - for practitioners new to evaluation
or needing a basics refresher.
Intermediate - assumes some prior knowledge that
will be revised before new concepts are introduced.
Experienced - for more experienced practitioners
or those seeking challenges.
Complete the registration form or register on-line at www.tayloredimages.com.au
to secure a place. Workshop places are limited and early registration
is advised. Conference registration is not a prerequisite for attending
workshops.
Workshops are subject to minimum numbers and may be cancelled
if numbers are not met.
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| Sunday 9 October - Full Day - 0930 - 1730 |
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| Workshop 1 |
| Program Theory: Understanding and Using Generic Program Theories for Program Evaluation |
| Sue Funnell |
| This workshop will show how generic theories of social change can help you to develop, justify and review the logic developed for a particular program. |
| This workshop is suitable for the more experienced skill level. |
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| Workshop 2 |
| Negotiation Skills in Program Evaluation |
| Anne Markiewicz and Melissa Conley Tyler |
| For the achievement of successful outcomes from the process of program evaluation, evaluators require highly developed negotiation skills. This workshop will focus on the development of negotiation skills for use by evaluators in program evaluation. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 3 |
| Contracting Evaluation |
| Penny Hawkins & Nan Wehipeihana |
| The workshop will provide a conceptual overview of the processes and issues relating to evaluation contracting. An inductive/case study approach will be used in which recent evaluation contract scenarios will be analysed using frameworks developed by the presenter. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 4 |
| The use of Evaluation in Organisational Governance and the D.E.S.E.R.T. (Directors' Effectiveness Self-Evaluation Research Tool) |
| Colin Sharp |
| How effective is your organisation? Chances are that the organisation's directors are a source of undiscussable concern about performance. How can Directors improve their effectiveness? How can they help to improve the effectiveness of the organisation? Come and find out more. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Sunday 9 October - Half Day - 0930 - 1300 |
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| Workshop 5 |
| Goal Attainment Scaling - A Participatory Evaluation Technique |
| Stephen Kelly |
| Goal Attainment Scaling is a participatory method that will encourage program staff to engage with everyone in a target group, not just the straightforward cases. |
| This workshop is suitable for new and intermediate skill levels. |
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| Workshop 6 |
| Groups Techniques for Evaluation: The Nominal Group and Delphi Techniques to Reach Consensus |
| Rosalind Hurworth |
| Sometimes we need people to come to consensus. This can be achieved using group methods such as the Nominal Group and Delphi Techniques. Learn how to set these up and take part in a Nominal Group session. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Sunday 9 October - Half Day - 1400 - 1730 |
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| Workshop 7 |
| Graphic facilitation - Using colourful graphics in the presentation of evaluation findings |
| Kataraina Pipi and Jay Takoko |
| An interactive presentation on how to enhance the presentation of research and evaluation findings using colourful graphics. Comments - "It was like an unfolding panorama of highly visible benchmarks from the program."
"Colourful, vibrant, accurate and affirming. It allowed peer acknowledgement and was factual and easy to share with others."
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| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 8 |
| 'People-focused' logic for capacity building projects |
| Jessica Dart |
| Learn a practical tool to help you develop your own program logic model with a 'people-focused' approach and form the spine of your monitoring, evaluation and learning framework. |
| This workshop is suitable for new and intermediate skill levels. |
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| Monday 10 October - Half Day - 0830 - 1200 |
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| Workshop 9 |
| Introduction to the Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) |
| Jessica Dart |
| Based on story of significant change, MSC is a form of monitoring without indicators. Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of this rapidly emerging technique how it complements other evaluation tools. |
| This workshop is suitable for new and intermediate skill levels. |
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| Workshop 10 |
| Risk Management and Audit as Evaluative Tools |
| Graham Smith |
| Risk Management and audit also provide evaluative advice to business, NGOs and government. Familiarity with these topics will help you to answer the question, 'Why do we need an evaluation when we have just had an audit (or risk assessment)? Not only that, you can use audit reports and risk assessments, or methodologies stolen from these disciplines, in your evaluations. |
| This workshop is suitable for intermediate skill level. |
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| Workshop 11 |
| 360-Degree Feedback: Online Methods and Techniques |
| Zita Unger and Melissa Prichard |
| 360-Degree Feedback is both powerful and popular for management development and performance appraisal. Learn how to implement online, and practice techniques for reporting effective feedback. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 12 |
| Evaluation Consultancy: "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" |
| Nan Wehipeihana |
| The workshop will provide participants with a realistic understanding of what it takes to get started as an independent consultant (personal, professional and business skills), strategies for getting known and getting work and surviving the initial euphoria and not ending up a small business statistic. |
| This workshop is suitable for new and intermediate skills levels. |
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| Workshop 13 |
| Introduction to the Consensus Group Technique |
| Dennis List |
| Consensus groups are similar to focus groups, but the outcomes, and to some extent the agenda, are determined by the participants. Because a highly skilled moderator is not needed and the technique is easily taught, clients can use it as a simple evaluation tool. |
| This workshop is suitable for intermediate and experienced skill levels. |
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| Workshop 14 |
| Groups Techniques for Evaluation: Ideawriting |
| Rosalind Hurworth |
| Ideawriting is a structured and useful way to brainstorm in order to generate ideas and solutions. Come and learn about this new technique and then participate in an ideawriting session. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 15 |
| An Industrial Engineering Approach to Defining Organizational Results |
| Sandiran (Sandi) Premakanthan |
| "What gets clearly defined, is measured, monitored, evaluated and reported for evidence-based decision making". Learn how to define organisational performance results using a Performance Metric-Structure which is a hierarchical ordering of strategic and operational performance measures. |
| This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. |
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| Workshop 16 |
| MIXED METHODS IN EVALUATION RESEARCH: ILLUMINATING CONTEXTUAL COMPLEXITY |
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Evaluation today takes place in a complex social context. Evaluation practitioners embrace different paradigms, perspectives, and values. They conduct evaluation for different purposes, take on different roles and favor a diverse array of practices.
Methodological multiplicity has been touted as a strategy that supports more defensible knowledge claims. Frequently, mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study designs have been advocated as enhancing understanding by providing a more complete and sophisticated depiction of our social world, from micro to macro ecological contexts. Importantly, a mixed-method approach is suited to illuminating diversity in its capacity to sustain the integration of frameworks, traditions, perspectives, theories and value stances. The goal of this session will be help participants understand how to thoughtfully use mixed methods in practice to strengthen the quality of evaluation studies.
This workshop will examine an array of issues related to mixed methods (conceptual frameworks, purposes served, design options, analysis, and reporting and use. The workshop will focus on various types of mixed-method designs, in particular, component designs where methods are implemented as discrete aspects of the inquiry and integrated designs that attain a greater integration of both method types. We will consider the ways in which studies can purposefully put together qualitative and quantitative method types to offset bias, explicate puzzling findings, enhance understanding of phenomena under study, and include multiple ways of knowing and valuing. Last, conceptual models of use, in particular Kirkhart’s Integrated Theory of Influence (ITI) will encourage critical reflection on dimensions to consider in maximizing the impact of mixed-method evaluations. Practical scenario exercises will complement and reinforce concepts presented.
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Room details for Workshops available at the Registration
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Registration Desk in the Boulevard Room Foyer on
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