Date and time: Thursday 29 May, 2025 12.30pm-1.30pm AEST
Topic: Calling evaluative reasoning! Come out, come out wherever you are!
Location: online via Zoom, details will be shared just prior to the event
Presenter: Associate Professor Amy Gullickson
Register online by: 4pm, 28 May 2025

Event description:

A provocation and conversation with eminent evaluation researcher A/Prof Amy Gullickson.

Have you ever struggled to make judgements explicit in your evaluation? Do you find it hard to connect facts to values in your reports in a way that allows decisions to be made?

Evaluative reasoning is a fundamental feature of evaluation. But recent Australian research tells us that evaluative reasoning isn’t always present in evaluation reports.

In this session we’ll hear about research conducted by Drs Kathryn Meldrum and Amy Gullickson that analysed the presence of evaluative reasoning in a set of publicly available evaluation reports. Amy will present the framework they developed to help make evaluative reasoning easier to do (we hope).

We’ll talk about how evaluative reasoning works. But we also want to hear from you, so the majority of this session will be a discussion about the barriers and enablers for making evaluative reasoning explicit in reports and your feedback on the framework.

Presenter details:

Associate Professor Amy Gullickson is an AES Fellow who has been doing, researching, and teaching evaluation for more than 20 years. She is in demand internationally as an expert in evaluation-specific methodology, evaluation teaching and learning, and evaluation capacity building for individuals, organisations, and systems. As a member of the AES Pathways committee, she co-leads the ongoing work on evaluator competencies and self-assessment.

This seminar will be recorded and available on the AES YouTube channel approximately four weeks after the date. We suggest you subscribe to the AES YouTube channel to be notified when new recordings are added.

This free event has been organised by the NSW Regional Network of the AES. Our seminar series provides an opportunity for you to meet with AES members and others in the evaluation community and to share and learn from the experiences of fellow evaluators. 

Session start times:

VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS, QLD: 12.00pm

SA, NT: 11.30am

WA: 10.00am

New Zealand: 2.00pm

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