The evaluator as educator

Abstract

Good evaluation shares much with good teaching. What makes an evaluation useful can depend on qualities of teaching brought to the evaluator's role.

PROTOCOL: Multiagency programmes with police as a partner for reducing radicalisation to violence

“…Existing literature highlights a growing range of police multiagency approaches that address terrorism, radicalisation, and/or extremism (e.g., see Butt & Tuck, 2014 ; Wise, Roberts, Formosa, & Chan, 2018 ). We anticipate that studies captured under the review of intervention effectiveness (Objective 1) will utilise quasiexperimental research designs (e.g., Williams, Horgan, & Evans, 2016 ).…”

The evaluator's role in valuing: Who and with whom

“…Most directly, Wise (1980), in a New Directions for Evaluation volume, spoke of the evaluator as educator. He noted that there are elements of evaluator as teacher in the interactions that occur.…”