Addressing the Challenges Encountered During a Developmental Evaluation

Implications for Evaluation Practice

Authors

  • Cheryl-Anne Poth University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Dorothy Pinto University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Kathy Howery University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.026.003

Abstract

This article describes three challenges encountered during a developmental evaluation and explains how these were addressed from the evaluators’ perspective. The evaluation was conducted to support the implementation of a three-year educational technology leadership project funded by the Alberta provincial government. The developmental evaluation responded to two purposes identified by the evaluation client: inform ongoing programmatic decisions and measure change in practice. The implications for evaluation practice related to the challenges of introducing a new evaluation approach, defining the boundaries of evaluator roles, and integrating technological resources are discussed and related to the Canadian Evaluator Competencies (Canadian Evaluation Society, 2010) and the Program Evaluation Standards (Yarborough, Shulha, Hopson, & Carruthers, 2011).

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Published

2011-04-21

How to Cite

Poth, C.-A., Pinto, D., & Howery, K. (2011). Addressing the Challenges Encountered During a Developmental Evaluation: Implications for Evaluation Practice. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 26(1), 39–48. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.026.003

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2011): Spring

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Copyright (c) 2011 Cheryl-Anne Poth, Dorothy Pinto, Kathy Howery

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