E. Jane Davidson Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Real Evaluation is a world-class evaluation consulting, capacity building, and professional development organization. We provide super-practical evaluation tools and frameworks to design, guide, accelerate, and track deep, sustainable change.Founded in 1997 by Dr. Jane Davidson, Real Evaluation is now based in Seattle, but continues to work globally, across multiple sectors. Wherever you are in the world, Real Evaluation offers refreshingly practical support, evaluation workshops, coaching, and keynotes for organizations seeking clarity and practicality.

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New Zealand

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(Beaming In From Afar)

Supporting graduate-level evaluation studies within the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education, mostly as a guest lecturer via Zoom, taking students' questions on rubrics, synthesis methodologies, and the practicalities of doing evaluation that is actually evaluative. As far as I am aware, this is the only graduate program in evaluation that explicitly teaches evaluation-specific methodology (e.g., systematic and transparent methods for merit determination, importance determination, and evaluative synthesis). If there are others out there that do this, I would love to hear of them! Any faculty using my text, Evaluation Methodology Basics: The nuts and bolts of sound evaluation, I am happy to beam into your classes too and answer any questions your students may have. Drop me a note if interested. :)

Greater Seattle Area

Evaluation-driven deep systems change that actually changes kids' and adults' lives.

The Evaluation Center's mission is to advance the theory, practice, and utilization of evaluation. Evaluation is the systematic determination of merit, worth, and/or significance. Evaluation may be done for the purpose of improvement, to help make decisions about the best course of action, and/or to learn about the reasons for successes and failures. Professional evaluators evaluate programs, personnel, products, policies, and more. The process of evaluation encompasses identifying audiences and their questions; defining evaluation criteria; obtaining, analyzing, and synthesizing relevant information to judge merit, worth, and/or significance; reporting results; and promoting appropriate and effective use of the findings.

Davidson gained approval for, launched and directed the first year of this world-class doctoral program. The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program (IDPE) develops thought leaders in evaluation who have: * Deep knowledge of evaluation theory, methodology, and practice * Superior skills in practical and critical thinking * A knack for seeing opportunities for innovation and improvementStudents obtain hands-on learning experiences by being immersed in a real-world learning laboratory from the beginning of their training. Students work their way up the ladder, taking increasingly challenging roles on Evaluation Center projects as they develop knowledge and skills. All students graduating from the program are able to “hit the ground running” as competent practitioners.

Ph.D, Psychology

M.A, Psychology (Industrial; Organisational

B.A, Psychology

Diploma, Teaching

B.Sc, Chemistry