On December 2nd 2010, Jane delivered a keynote address for the Self Assessment for Quality conference, hosted by the Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand.
The audience were representatives from tertiary (=higher) education organisations from throughout Aotearoa New Zealand working to implement a new evaluative approach to quality assurance, where they ask and answer questions about the quality of their offerings and services and the value of their outcomes for learners and other key stakeholders (such as employers, communities and iwi).
The theme of the conference was Self-Assessment for Quality: How do you know good when you see it?
Obviously, some of the slides need further explanation for those who weren’t there. I am planning to flesh out some of the key points on the Genuine Evaluation blog over the next few weeks.
Roger Maaka, an academic who has studied and advised on indigenous issues internationally.
Donna Mertens is past president of the American Evaluation Association and editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, as well as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Thomas Schwandt is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of a standing committee of the National Research Council of the US National Academies of Sciences.
Elliot Stern is Professor of Evaluation Research at Lancaster University and the current editor of Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice.
Jane Davidson, formerly the Associate Director of the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, Jane now heads an evaluation consulting firm in Auckland, New Zealand.
