Leslie J Cooksy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6650468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie J Cooksy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooksy |
| SIGNATURE | COOKSY L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Equity for All
Foundations increasingly recognize that improving conditions in many communities requires addressing inequities in access to rights and resources. Yet there are challenges to effective investment in underresourced regions, especially when foundations have limited familiarity with the region and may assume limited local capacity to leverage philanthropic investments. This article discusses how Sierra Health Foundation partnered with other Californ…
Influences on Evaluation Quality
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context, and (c) the level and nature of supportive resources that are available in the evaluation community. …
Evaluators’ Reflections on the Ethical Implications of Their Early Experiences
What kinds of ethical dilemmas do people who are new to the profession of evaluation face? Are they different from the challenges faced by more experienced evaluators? What strategies do they use to resolve them? These questions were the starting point for the essays included in this issue of the Ethical Challenges section. The essays were written by people who responded to information sent to them by faculty who were in turn responding to the fo…
Reflections on Guiding Principle E
Indigenous Fieldworkers in Evaluation
Challenges and Opportunities in Experiential Learning
Ethical Challenges Scenario
Ethical Challenges
Ethical Challenges
Ethical Challenges
This issue's scenario, “To Participate or Not to Participate,” describes an evaluator's shift in method from nonparticipant to participant observation. Although evaluation theorists differ on the extent to which methods decisions are ethical decisions (Morris, 1998), neither of the two commentators considers the methodological decision problematic; however, both raise issues about the process surrounding the change in observational approach. The …
Ethical Challenges
Quality, Context, and Use
Metaevaluations are systematic reviews of evaluations to determine the quality of their processes and findings. The knowledge about evaluation quality that results from metaevaluation of multiple evaluations can be used to inform researchers’ decisions about which studies to include in evaluation syntheses. Metaevaluations of multiple studies are also used to identify strengths and weaknesses in evaluation practice in order to develop evaluation …
Commentary
Commentary
The meta-evaluand
The Meta-Evaluand
In August 1997, a series of messages on EVALTALK, the American Evaluation Association’s electronic discussion group, emphasized the need for meta-evaluation. To prompt public critique and discussion, this description of the evaluation of Project TEAMS was submitted to The American Journal of Evaluation. The evaluation used a program logic model to guide data collection and reporting activities and relied on multiple sources of data. Because of im…
Quality, Context, and Use
Metaevaluations are systematic reviews of evaluations to determine the quality of their processes and findings. The knowledge about evaluation quality that results from metaevaluation of multiple evaluations can be used to inform researchers’ decisions about which studies to include in evaluation syntheses. Metaevaluations of multiple studies are also used to identify strengths and weaknesses in evaluation practice in order to develop evaluation …
Influences on Evaluation Quality
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context, and (c) the level and nature of supportive resources that are available in the evaluation community. …
Commentary
Commentary
The Meta-Evaluand
In August 1997, a series of messages on EVALTALK, the American Evaluation Association’s electronic discussion group, emphasized the need for meta-evaluation. To prompt public critique and discussion, this description of the evaluation of Project TEAMS was submitted to The American Journal of Evaluation. The evaluation used a program logic model to guide data collection and reporting activities and relied on multiple sources of data. Because of im…
Evaluators’ Reflections on the Ethical Implications of Their Early Experiences
What kinds of ethical dilemmas do people who are new to the profession of evaluation face? Are they different from the challenges faced by more experienced evaluators? What strategies do they use to resolve them? These questions were the starting point for the essays included in this issue of the Ethical Challenges section. The essays were written by people who responded to information sent to them by faculty who were in turn responding to the fo…
Challenges and Opportunities in Experiential Learning
Ethical Challenges
Ethical Challenges
The meta-evaluand
The Meta-Evaluand
In August 1997, a series of messages on EVALTALK, the American Evaluation Association’s electronic discussion group, emphasized the need for meta-evaluation. To prompt public critique and discussion, this description of the evaluation of Project TEAMS was submitted to The American Journal of Evaluation. The evaluation used a program logic model to guide data collection and reporting activities and relied on multiple sources of data. Because of im…
Commentary
Commentary
Ethical Challenges
Quality, Context, and Use
Metaevaluations are systematic reviews of evaluations to determine the quality of their processes and findings. The knowledge about evaluation quality that results from metaevaluation of multiple evaluations can be used to inform researchers’ decisions about which studies to include in evaluation syntheses. Metaevaluations of multiple studies are also used to identify strengths and weaknesses in evaluation practice in order to develop evaluation …
Ethical Challenges
Ethical Challenges
This issue's scenario, “To Participate or Not to Participate,” describes an evaluator's shift in method from nonparticipant to participant observation. Although evaluation theorists differ on the extent to which methods decisions are ethical decisions (Morris, 1998), neither of the two commentators considers the methodological decision problematic; however, both raise issues about the process surrounding the change in observational approach. The …
Ethical Challenges Scenario
Ethical Challenges
Indigenous Fieldworkers in Evaluation
Challenges and Opportunities in Experiential Learning
Evaluators’ Reflections on the Ethical Implications of Their Early Experiences
What kinds of ethical dilemmas do people who are new to the profession of evaluation face? Are they different from the challenges faced by more experienced evaluators? What strategies do they use to resolve them? These questions were the starting point for the essays included in this issue of the Ethical Challenges section. The essays were written by people who responded to information sent to them by faculty who were in turn responding to the fo…
Reflections on Guiding Principle E
Influences on Evaluation Quality
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context, and (c) the level and nature of supportive resources that are available in the evaluation community. …
Equity for All
Foundations increasingly recognize that improving conditions in many communities requires addressing inequities in access to rights and resources. Yet there are challenges to effective investment in underresourced regions, especially when foundations have limited familiarity with the region and may assume limited local capacity to leverage philanthropic investments. This article discusses how Sierra Health Foundation partnered with other Californ…
Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Management science (8 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Program evaluation (5 works) · Evaluation methods (4 works)