In partnership with community, we develop and deliver accessible learning opportunities to increase
evaluation knowledge, skills, and motivation.
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Check out our learning opportunities:
A one-week evaluation institute at the University of Alberta. Designed as an interactive, experiential, and case-based curricular course for undergraduates, graduates, and community stakeholders. UEval aims to foster sustainable evaluation capacity within the community.
Click to Learn MoreThe 2021 Summer Institute has been cancelled due to COVID19. The Summer Institute brings together university students and community-based practitioners to learn together about evaluation. We combine lectures, case studies and group work to introduce the concepts of participatory evaluation for improved planning and delivery.
Click to Learn MoreNotre laboratoire permet aux organismes communautaires de recevoir une formation pratique en évaluation et de réaliser des projets évaluatifs en profitant d’un accompagnement et d’un soutien technique.
Click to Learn MoreA space for non-profit sector professionals to come together and collaboratively deepen understandings of evaluation, reflective practice, and critical learning. Over six sessions, participants can test and apply evaluation concepts and tools in 'real-life' settings.
Click to Learn MoreA collaborative, flexible, hands-on evaluation learning opportunity offered in collaboration with the Alberta Mentoring Partnership. Over 6 months, mentoring organizations participate in synchronous group learning sessions, as well as individual and group coaching sessions to plan and conduct meaningful and useful evaluations of their programs. The structure, content, and time commitment of the course is flexible based on organizational needs, but previous offerings have involved approximately 27 hours of group training. Networking and co-learning between organizations is also emphasized to provide valuable and contextual knowledge and resources specific to the mentoring sector. Learners receive a certificate of completion. Our current offering concluded in May 2023! Please check back for future offerings.
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There are no upcoming events at the moment... please check back later this summer!
This 5-part self-paced learning series and companion workbook was created by the Centre for Community Based Research. Content is framed within the early childhood context; however, individuals from all disciplines will benefit from this learning.
The Evaluation Capacity Network presents how community-driven evaluation and capacity building can be done in practice. This session highlights 7 current projects.
Presenters: Rebecca Gokiert & Evaluation Capacity Network
Culture influences every dimension of the evaluation process and its stakeholders. This is why evaluations need to be culturally responsive to be meaningful and valid. Taking an equity, diversity, inclusion, and indigeneity lens is key to ensure recognition, accurate interpretation, and use of evaluations.
Panelists: Yvonne Chiu, Jill Chouinard, and Ayesha Boyce
A public webinar, with evaluation expert Sami Berger, for the non-profit community to explore the basics of strategic learning. This 90-minute webinar follows a case study approach that allows participants to gain a better understanding of strategic learning and its importance. By the end of this webinar, you will have basic knowledge of strategic learning, its benefits, and how to start embedding it into your organization!
Presenters: Sami Berger & The Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations
The pandemic has thrust the social serving sector into the depths of transformation as they respond to diverse client needs, restrained financial resources, and public health restrictions. As we re-imagine how to respond to the long term effects of the pandemic, the equity issues that have been magnified, and the economic pressures of the downturn, explore how transformative evaluation can make a difference. (Link to PPT)
Presenters: Michael Quinn-Patton & Mark Cabaj
ECN partners share about the development of the network, examples of ongoing collaborative evaluation projects, and ways to get connected to the capacity building opportunities being offered across Canada.
Presenters: Rebecca Gokiert, Javier Mignone & Isabelle Bourgeois
In this webinar, speakers explain the implementation steps of community-based evaluation and shared real-life examples of evaluations in the early childhood development field.
Presenters: Rich Janzen & April MacDonald Killins
Learn about methods for collecting, analyzing, and summarizing evaluation information. Explore ethical considerations when conducting community-based evaluations.
Presenters:
Rebecca Gokiert, Jason Daniels & Roxanne Felix-Mah
See related webinars and resources at eval4refugee.ca.
Tune into Session 5 of this year's EvalLab, a facilitated conversation with Mark Cabaj, Associate of Tamarack Institute and President of From Here to There.
Presenters:
Mark Cabaj, Bethan Kingsley & Pieter de Vos
