Lots of Links - more on meta-evaluation

Wondering whether I should relook at the mq projects and contact leaders anyway and see what they wrote in their evaluation methods section of application but then would need to ask Barb if I can get a copy of those applications as they would not be publicly available. And then do I tell people that I have looked at their application before I interview them? Would need to disclose this.

Need to add the word metaevaluation to the tile of phd.

Mark, Henry and julnes 2000 reasons for evaluating. This would be more relevant than the ref I used in my proposal which was 1998 and was only editors notes....maybe?

Add the links to the uni west Michigan website, to my blog for future reference. http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/about-checklists/

Usability evaluation report , useful for my useability testing some nice references and a way to layout the findings etc.

http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/archive_checklists/papers/useability_evaluation.pdf

Papers to be read

Metaevaluation, stufflebeam

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/300/295

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/307/306

evaluation bias and it's cntrol, Scriven:

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/299/294

Metaevaluation in practice, selection and application of criteria. Cooksy & caracelli

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/211/223

Metaevaluation revisited, Scriven

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/220/215

Metaevaluation as a means of examining evaluation influence, Oliver

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/209/212

A basis for determining the adequacy of evaluation designs, sanders & nafziger

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/296/293

Mandated Evaluation: Integrating the Funder-Fundee Relationship into a Model of Evaluation Utilization

Mayhew, F.       2011 May 9. Mandated Evaluation: Integrating the Funder-Fundee Relationship into a Model of Evaluation Utilization. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation [Online] 7:16. Available: http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/315/315

this weeks thoughts

today I have been wondering if I am on the right track. It seems that all ALTC projects have to be externally evaluated. So am i looking to see what was done with that evaluation and therefore apply findings to mq L&T projects?
If yes, then i need to ensure the questions i ask are relevant to this purpose.
I'm trying to help mq applicants run an evaluation that is not time consuming and.....

new search criteria

I need to do a new lit search with the word metaevaluation. I also need to search through evaluation journals.

evaluation checklists

today i decided to start compiling the data and building the questions to be used to conduct the metaevaluation (new word i think i may use in my title).

found the evaluation centre on the university of west michigan's website. A plethora of resources. Patton and Scriven publish there.

They also have an online journal of interdisciplinary evalaution.http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

I'm wondering if i can publish my proposal there? Is that something you do? Publish your proposal? Maybe I can rewrite the proposal as a series of thought provoking sections which lead to the phases. Will check with Marina.

Still no news form the faculty on whether i can actually do this thing yet!