Designing Evaluation Strategies - Social Issues and Social Policy Assignment Help

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Question 1

The Australasian Evaluation Society has been considering whether to have a professional designation for evaluators, based on core competencies (current version shown in resources section). Which groups and roles do you think should be covered by such a professional designation? What do you think will happen to groups that fall outside the specifications? What do you think the pros and cons are of professionalisation, particularly for evaluation in Indigenous contexts?
Resources 

Australasian Evaluation Society (2013) Evaluators' Professional Learning Competency Framework. AES, Melbourne.
James, M 2012, ‘Designing evaluation strategies’, Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation, Roundtable Proceedings, pp. 107-118, Australian Government Productivity Commission, viewed 22 April 2015.
Morelli, P. & Mataira, M. (2010)  Indigenizing evaluation research: A long-awaited paradigm shift. Indigenizing evaluation research: A long-awaited paradigm shift. - Alternative Formats
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work. 1(2): 1- 12.
Scougall, J. (2006). Reconciling tensions between principles and practice in Indigenous evaluation. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 6(2), 49.
Sithole, B., Hunter–Xenie, H., & Dunnett, D. (2009). Research as Opportunities for Aboriginal Engagement: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Research Practitioners’ Network. Learning Communities, International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, 61-86.
Williams, E. (2020). Reflections over time: Indigenous roles in Australasian evaluation conferences 1999-2014. Evaluative Voices 1(3)  Reflections over time MPP502 version.docx Reflections over time MPP502 version.docx - Alternative Formats
Question 2 

Imagine that you have been given the task of coming up with evidence, perhaps by conducting an evaluation, in a very short timeframe, and you are concerned about whether truly accurate information – or even ethical practice – is possible in the time frame given. What steps could you take?
Resources 

Abele, F. (2013) Is evaluation a tool for social justice? Reconciliation? Control? — Reflections on the Canadian experience in Indigenous affairs. In: Productivity Commission Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation Roundtable Proceedings, Canberra. Chapter 11, 183-204
Kawakami, A. J., Aton, K., Cram, F., Lai, M., &Porima, L. (2008). Improving the practice of evaluation through indigenous values and methods. Fundamental issues in evaluation, 219-242.
Christie, M. (2014). Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden. Cross/Cultures, (173), 57.
Question 3

For a policy area of special interest to you, identify a number of existing data sources. (it would be particularly helpful if you can identify sources that others may not be familiar with.) In that same area, what do you see as the most critical data gaps?
Resources

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: 2015
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework. AIHW, Canberra.https://www.pmc.gov.au/news-centre/indigenous-affairs/health-performance-framework-2017-report-now-available
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016) 4714.0 - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, 2014-15  
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2014) 4736.0 - Information Paper: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Perspectives on Homelessness, 2014
Fitzgerald, R. (2013) Outcomes for Indigenous Australians — the current situation. In: Productivity Commission Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation Roundtable Proceedings, Canberra. Chapter 2, 21-50
Taylor, J. (2013) Data for better Indigenous policy evaluation: achievements, constraints
and opportunities. In: Productivity Commission Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation Roundtable Proceedings, Canberra. Chapter 7, 119-130
Question 4 

Identify some urban areas, and some topics where even if the policy/research/evaluation question is not specifically Indigenous-focused, the investigation process needs to be designed to elicit Indigenous views. What steps would you take to do this?
Resources

Redfern Waterloo Association (RWA) Human Services Plan:
RWA Evaluation Framework
RWA Human Services Plan Performance Indicators
Behrendt, L. (2006). The urban Aboriginal landscape. In After sprawl: Post-suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of the Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation, Conference, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
Pyett, P., Waples?Crowe, P., & Van Der Sterren, A. (2009). Engaging with Aboriginal communities in an urban context: some practical suggestions for public health researchers. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33(1), 51-54.
Tilley, N., Rayment-McHugh, S., Smallbone, S., Wardell, M., Smith, D., Allard, T., Wortley, R., Findlater, D., Stewart, A., &Homel, R. (2014). On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities. Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts [Special Issue: Evaluation], 14, 6-27.
Question 5 

After completing the readings for this unit, review the AES evaluator competencies, particularly those related to cultural competence. Does it seem to you that the competencies cover all the points required? If not, what competencies and strategies do you think are critical to build evidence effectively in remote Indigenous contexts?
Resources

Christie, M., & Campbell, M. (2014). Aboriginal contributions to the evaluation of housing (and to postcolonial theory). Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts [Special Issue: Evaluation], 14, 154-165.
Campbell, M., Foster, D & Davis, V. (2014). Looking back, moving forward: the place of evaluation at the Tangentyere Council Research Hub. Learning Communities International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts (14), 144-152.
Rachel Dunne, Joan Meredith, Therese Puruntatameri, Australian Red Cross NT; Alberta Puruntatameri, Pirlangimpi, Melville Island, Nea Harrison, Pandanus Evaluation & Planning Services (2014) Participatory evaluation is the Sea Eagle: looking “long way wide eyed”: Building an evaluative culture in remote Aboriginal and urban contexts using participatory and developmental approaches. Paper developed for the 2014 CES conference, Darwin.
Blagg H 2011. Journeys outside the comfort zone: doing research in the Aboriginal domain, in Bartels L and Richards K (eds), Qualitative criminology: stories from the field. Sydney: Federation Press: 140-154
Question 6 (300 words)

For a policy area of special interest to you, identify a number of barriers that stand between collecting evidence and translation findings into policy.

Resources

AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies
Australasian Evaluation Society (2013) Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Evaluations

Phillips-Brown, P., Reddel, T., & Gleeson, B. (2013). Learning from experience? Getting governments to listen to what evaluations are telling them. In: Productivity Commission 2013, Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation, Roundtable Proceedings, Canberra, Chapter 13, 245-264
Dillon, M. (2013) The use of evaluation in Indigenous policy and program development: the case of Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory. In: Productivity Commission 2013, Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation, Roundtable Proceedings, Canberra. Chapter 12, 227-243 [Note this reading includes appended section on ‘Methodology matters’.]
Stewart, J. & Jarvie, W. (2015). Haven’t We Been This Way Before? Evaluation and the Impediments to Policy Learning. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74(2), pp114 - 127.

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