ElevateEvaluate Podcast

Episode 8: Diction in Evaluation Questions

An often overlooked aspect of evaluation, this episode examines the aspects that distinguish a good evaluation question from a bad one, and provides criteria on how to properly write evaluation questions.

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Contributor: Hannah Skiff

Hannah Skiff received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Florida in 2017, and she is expected to finish her Dual Master of Public Administration / Master of Nonprofit Management degrees from the University of Central Florida in Fall 2021. Hannah hopes that her episode can underscore the value of word choice in evaluation question creation and its applicability to any field.

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Episode 13: Ethics in Evaluation: Exploring Informed Consents, Confidentiality and Safety 

We take ethics even further, breaking it down into three key aspects: informed consents, confidentiality, and safety.

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Episode 12: Ethics in Evaluation: A General Overview 

This episode is all about ethics, including the key ways that the Canadian and American evaluation associations define the term.

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Episode 11: Cultural Competence in Organizational Settings

Culture is flipped on its head and is explored in terms of organizational settings and work culture. Key points include roles between staff, location of data collection, and how they can affect the quality of data.

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Episode 10: Cultural Competence in LGTBQ+ Programs 

Cultural competence is explored even further in terms of how we can equip ourselves with useful knowledge about other people’s identities. Education and understanding the community are strongly emphasized.

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Episode 9: Cultural Competence in Evaluation

This episode explores culturally competent practices in evaluation, including the usefulness of demographics and census data, as well as the difference in equality and equity.

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Episode 14: Cultural Competence in Domestic Violence Prevention Programs

Using the lens of a domestic violence prevention program, this episode explores what cultural competence means, what tools and skills should be utilized for cultural competence, and define a culturally responsive evaluation.

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Episode 7: The Importance of Program Evaluation in Mental Health Service 

Program evaluation makes an impact, and sometimes in even bigger ways than we could imagine. Here, we discuss how we can establish guidelines, evaluation questions, and the evaluation design process.

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Episode 6: The Role of Stakeholders' Involvement in Program Evaluation

This episode tackles the role of stakeholders in each step of the program evaluation process, as well as best practices to include stakeholders.

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Episode 5: Introduction to Graduate Students

Welcome a new cohort of students to Elevate Evaluate - the graduate students! We discuss topics explored in this new batch of episodes, including the unique perspective this group of students can bring to the field of evaluation.

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Samantha Ford

Dr. Maritza Concha 

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