Please post your ideas for proposals for next year's meeting (and link up with each other to draft the proposals in time for AEA deadlines). AEA Annual Meeting 2009 (ideas for 2010) The AEA meeting in Orlanda was very productive. Our think tank produced some very generative thinking. In our think tank, we asked participants to list the strengths ad limitations of each approach. Then Drs. Fetterman, O'Sullivan, Shulha, and Rodriguez-Campos served as the "expert" panel to comment on the insights..
The focus of the participant discussions was centered on strengths and limitations of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation approaches.
In addition, the group highlighted remaining questions.  The group was lively and enaged and recommended the following topics to pursue for next year's annual meeting.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The debate below stimulated additional ideas for the upcoming meeting. Fetterman, Scriven, and Patton Debate: Empowerment Evaluation.    The 2009 Claremont Evaluation Debates August 23 & 24, 2009 Claremont Graduate University Space for the online event is limited, please visit <http://www.cgu.edu/pages/465.asp > or email Paul.Thomas@cgu.edu to reserve access to a free connection to the debate. |
What are the best methods to expand Evaluation field in respect to scientific and cultural contexts? Research based methods versus Evaluation based methods
Hi Moein
You raise or at least allude to a classic question: it this research or evaluation. The answer, I think is: evaluation. Thus, while research-based methods are useful and appropriate to apply in evaluation, fundamentally evaluation-based methods are best suited to the conduct of evaluation. I think evaluation has evolved to the point in which evaluation-based methods are robust, sophisticated, and appropriate to the task at hand. They have the added benefit of factoring in the politics, real world constraints, and a stakeholder's perspective or needs as part of the equation. Evaluation-based methods have the most potential for moving the field along because they are shaped and guided by evaluative goals, concerns, and experience. Take care.
- David
Hi professor
Thank you for good answer. I think this idea: Evaluation-based methods have the most potential for moving the field along because they are shaped and guided by evaluative goals, concerns, and experience has a capable to develop an article for next AEA annual meeting. If we pursuit Research based methods in evaluation work only we received to research! Not to evaluation. At this time many evaluators and evaluation approaches select and pursuit this fallow land!
Best
Moein