How to teach things like judgment, discernment, political navigation, and balancing alternative value sets that might be applied to an evaluation.
There is benefit in adopting an historical lens that has us look at past evaluations and learn from past evaluators, both on the positive and negative side. Importance of evaluation history in who evaluators are.
In addition to simulation, we could think about modelling in our training of evaluators.
Example of Dr. Edmund Gordon and the Head Start educational program in the U.S.
Helped with broadening the view of the kinds of things that ought to be measured as possible outcomes of Head Start – beyond IQ scores to socio-emotional measures like self-esteem.
Follow-up assessments showed the initial benefits of Head Start dissipated over time because they weren’t further supported.
Another program came in – the lessons were lost, the breadth of those measures that needed to be taken in the follow-up program.
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