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| 2009 Survey
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| 1. |
Name of Evaluation Group (Society /
Association / Network) |
| DeGEval – Gesellschaft
fuer Evaluation e.V. (Evaluation Society) |
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| 2. |
Contact Details – names, e-mail address,
telephone, web site |
Dr. Uwe Schmidt (Vice President)
c/o ZQ Universität Mainz
Forum universitatis 4
D-55099 Mainz
Tel.: +49 (0)6131/39206869
E-Mail: info@degeval.de
Website: www.degeval.de |
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| 3. |
Current membership – approximate size and
origin – i.e. from govt., NGOs, academics, private
sector, etc. |
523 individual members
107 institutional members |
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| 4. |
Purpose of group |
Professionalization of Evaluation
The growing demand for evaluation offers many opportunities,
but also implies certain risks. These are related firstly
to evaluation quality and secondly to the professionalism
of evaluators and the framework of evaluation. Despite
a great interest in evaluation, there is a clear need
for information regarding the possibilities and the
limitations of evaluation and regarding its benefits
and costs. |
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| Therefore, DeGEval is strongly committed
to the following: |
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to promote binding quality standards
for evaluation laid down in the ‘Standards for
Evaluation’ and the subsequent ‘Guidelines
for Implementation of the Standards in the Field of Self-Evaluation; |
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to communicate the importance of qualitatively
sophisticated evaluation to evaluation clients, evaluators,
and to the evaluated themselves; |
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to support evaluation clients from regional
authorities, public bodies, publicly funded institutions,
and churches, foundations and associations, and to contribute
to their professionalization via the ‘Guidelines
for Evaluation Clients; |
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to support high quality training programs
according to DeGEval’s ‘Guidelines for Training
in Evaluation; |
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to make information concerning evaluation
publicly available. |
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| 5. |
Current strategy and emphasis |
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Consolidation of Different Perspectives
In order to consolidate differing perspectives, experience
and expectations regarding evaluation, DeGEval has
set itself the following tasks: |
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to promote a dialogue between evaluators both within
and beyond singular fields of evaluation, this being
an especial achievement of the DeGEval work groups; |
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to gather together the experience and expectations
of clients, evaluation researchers, evaluators, and the
evaluated; |
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to form a network of the providers of training programs
in evaluation; |
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to uphold and expand contacts to the relevant national
and international organizations that are active in various
fields of evaluation. |
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| 6. |
Means of communication with members, e.g.
newsletter, listserv, publication |
| DeGEval... Mail, column DeGEval... Info,
mailing list forum-evaluation, website, publications/
booklets edited by DeGEval, internal area of the DeGEval
web server containing various information about all areas
of evaluation and a commented register of members |
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| 7. |
| Forthcoming key events/conferences – dates,
location, contact person for more information |
12. Jahrestagung der DeGEval: Evaluation
und Gesellschaft, Muenster, October 7th-9th 2009
For more information feel free to write us an e-mail
to info@degeval.de or visit our website www.degeval.de |
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| 8. |
Name and e-address of person submitting this
information |
| Antonie Schneider, info@degeval.de |
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| 9. |
Date of most recent update |
| August 24th 2009 |
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