Cornell Evaluation Network (CEN)
Spring 2015 Skill Development Series
Build your skills! Network with others doing evaluation work at Cornell!
Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation:
From Theory to Practice
In this presentation, Dr. Goodyear will review
key elements of high quality
qualitative evaluation. Through case
illustrations drawn from evaluation
experience, she will describe how these
elements are put into practice. Awareness of
these elements, and a focus on developing
the skills to ensure that they are present,
robust and well managed, are central to
becoming a skilled qualitative evaluator. The
workshop will be interactive. We encourage
participants to share examples from their own
evaluation efforts.
Leslie Goodyear, PhD
Education Development
Center, Inc.
Research, Evaluation, and Policy:
Principal Research Scientist
Dr. Goodyear brings nearly 20 years of experience
evaluating educational initiatives domestically and
internationally, in both formal and informal educational
settings. At the EDC, she leads multiple evaluation studies
and coordinates evaluation capacity building activities
across the Learning and Teaching Division. From 2009 to
2012, she took a leave from EDC to serve as a program
officer at the National Science Foundation. In addition to her
day job, Leslie is the associate editor of the American
Journal of Evaluation, lead editor of Qualitative Inquiry in
Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (2014), and serves on a
number of committees for AEA. Leslie received a Master of
Science and her Ph.D. from the College of Human Ecology,
Cornell University
Thursday April 23. 3pm - 5 pm, in Mann 102
Attend Online: https://cornell.webex.com/cornell/j.php?MTID=m914f682f786ae20a2db05880c168cc9e
PW: Evalnet2015
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Same day, same speaker, different presentation - See also: BCTR Talks at Twelve: 4/23/15, 12-1 PM, Beebe Hall , 2nd Floor Conference Room
How can evaluators integrate qualitative inquiry into their evaluation practice? Where does qualitative inquiry fit into well-known evaluation
approaches such as Utilization-Focused Evaluation or Participatory Evaluation, or for that matter, Theory-Driven Evaluation? What do practicing
evaluators learn about these intersections when they practice qualitative evaluation? And, what constitutes high-quality qualitative evaluation?
Leslie Goodyear will focus on these theoretical and practical issues and share a framework for thinking about quality in qualitative evaluation
when she presents an overview of her new book, Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory to Practice.
http://www.bctr.cornell.edu/events/talks-at-twelve-leslie-goodyear/