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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"evaluative thinking"”.
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… problems that can worsen into the future. Evaluative thinking—which largely involves critical thinking, valuing, and other dynamic processes—may be ubiquitously useful to practitioners, scholars, and others from both these fields of practice. In this dissertation, I referenced the dual …
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Effects of an Evaluative Thinking Game on Classroom Interaction
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The Relationship between Motivation and Evaluation Capacity in Community-based Organizations
… also investigates the relationships motivation - evaluative thinking, and evaluation capacity - evaluative thinking, finding that individual evaluation capacity and evaluative thinking are closely related. This study elucidates the link between employee motivation, evaluation capacity, and …
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The Depth and Complexity Program Evaluation Tool: A New Method for Conducting Internal Evaluations of Gifted Education Programs
… qualitative survey, a pre and post measure of evaluative thinking, weekly status checks, and the opportunity to participate in a focus group. Thirty-seven participants completed pre and post assessments of their evaluation knowledge using a 4-point response scale from 1 (Novice) to 4 (Expert). …
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Potential Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis for Big Data and Machine Learning Integration in Evaluation
… addition aspects addressed by evaluation and evaluative thinking. Evaluative thinking when incorporated with the analysis of big data sources can become a powerful tool in our hands that could be used in various sectors, for various purposes, to build equity and justice in society and make us …
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Making Space for Evaluation to Strengthen Conservation Innovation
… and analyzing social-ecological data, called evaluative thinking. The following chapters describe results and implications of an integrative theory and a sequence of three studies focused on an exemplary University of Minnesota innovation partnership, the Regional Sustainable Development …
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Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) as a Vehicle for Social Transformation: Conceptualizing Transformative ECB and Kaleidoscopic Thinking
… While ECB on its own valuable, as it can promote evaluative thinking and help build staff's evaluation literacy and competency, ECB presents a ripe opportunity for program staff to understand the principles of equity and inclusivity and to see themselves as change agents for societal …
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Teachers' Perceptions on Professional Learning: A Mixed Method Program Evaluation in a Middle School Setting
… effectiveness and results. By facilitating evaluative thinking among teachers on the topic of teacher professional learning, the goal was to change how teachers conceptualize teacher professional learning. The discussion of professional learning was based on the Modes of Learning Framework …
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Let’s Get Strategic: An Exploration of the How-To’s, What-Not-to-Do’s, and Promising Upshots of Strategic Evaluation Initiatives
… an intervention to promote process use, foster evaluative thinking, and build evaluation capacity among stakeholders. Ultimately, this study offers evaluation practitioners tangible actions that can be adopted when advancing the use of evaluation.</p>
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Putting (programme) theory into practice, the use of programme theory in programme evaluation practice in small third sector organisations. Current practice and future improvements
… evaluation: that is, in its role as a 'tool for evaluative thinking', through its confirmatory function and visual nature.;Overall, this thesis contributes to our understanding of the use of programme theory in small third sector organisations in terms of the better conceptualising current …