Name: Failing your way to better practice: How to tread carefully when things aren't going as planned
Start: 2024-09-18T17:00:00+1000
End: 2024-09-18T17:30:00+1000

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Wednesday September 18, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm AEST

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Authors: Stephanie White (Victoria Department of Education )

Evaluators can fail in many ways. The consequences of these failures can be relatively contained or wide ranging within the evaluation and can also flow on to program operations. But failure is a part of life and can be a useful catalyst for professional growth. What happens when you find yourself failing and can see the risks ahead? How do you keep going?

The session focuses on the experiences of an emerging evaluator who failed while leading a large-scale education evaluation. When some elements of the evaluation became untenable, they struggled to find the right path forward and could foresee the risks materialising if the situation wasn’t addressed. On the other side of it, they reflect on how they drew on tools in every evaluator’s toolkit to start remedying their previous inaction and missteps to get the evaluation back on track…and improve their practice along the way!

This session is relevant to any evaluator who grapples with the messiness of expectations and reality in their practice.

Speakers

Stephanie White

Victoria Department of Education

I found my way to evaluation in the last few years after mulling over questions of education program quality and success for years. Now working as a Senior Evaluation and Research Officer at the Victoria Department of Education, most of my career has been in the Northern Territory... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm AEST
105 109 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006, Australia

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Format Short paper
Level Foundational
Industry Community and social services, Education and training, Public administration and safety

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