I'll start by going back to the coding bible (Saldana) re reading my scribbles and trying to pick up where I left off.
I haven't been completely redundant. I've been scratching my head for a long time considering what to do about my rejection of paper 3 from the Journal of Further and Higher Education. This was the paper that reported outcomes from phase one of the project. I attempted to ask for a fourth reviewer because I felt that one of the reviewers had not read the paper or rather had jumped to inaccurate conclusions about what I was trying to do. Anyway that led nowhere so have now resubmitted to the International Journal of Educational Management. That was about a month ago so will sit tight and wait to hear.
In the meantime I have been trialling the modified Chesterton & Cummings Evaluation Framework with my OLT project for which I am an external evaluator. There has been good feedback from the team about how this has really helped them keep their focus and keep the project on track. We are also in discussion on writing a paper together to describe how the evaluation has worked for them.
I had a workshop abstract accepted at the Australasian Evaluation Society's annual conference in Darwin. However they were unable to attract enough participants so I am now reconsidering my attendance. It would have been a great opportunity to trial the framework and application with a wider audience.
And finally I have submitted an abstract to the AAIR (Australasian Association for Institutional Research) Forum 2014. This year they have partnered up with the Australasian Higher Education Evaluation Forum(AHEEF). I was particularly interested in two of the Themes:
- Closing the Loop – Putting Evidence into Practice
- Influencing Change through Information and Evaluation
