Moral Evaluations

During an interview with a philosophy professor at BYU, he made the point that all evaluations by humans have elements of or are clearly filled with moral accountability issues. This theme resounded with my own feelings about my evaluations. These quotes illustrate-

I think it's very difficult to think of an issue of accountability that doesn't quickly become a moral issue.

I need to add some more over time.

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August 5, 2017 Introduction and Invitation

August 5, 2017 Beginning about 1997, I began documenting people's evaluation lives by interviewing them to ask what evaluation is to them and to give examples of them evaluating. In 2016 I published a book ( Volume #150 in the American Evaluation Association's New Directions for Evaluation series) about the evaluation lives of seven professional evaluators. Rather than publish their transcripts, they used our interview experience to create articles which are included in that volume. In 2018, a sequel was published about the evaluation lives of twenty-nine additional professional evaluators (Volume #157) that is available through Wiley. Here is a link to a pre-publication draft and here are the transcripts of my interviews with 24 of those evaluators (all those who gave permission to make them available to the public. However, my original interest was in understanding and sharing the evaluation lives of every day people (not just professional evaluators) in their perso...

LDS views on learning to use both thinking and feeling in most evaluation situations

The following quotes are taken from interviews M held with B in 2014-15. Both M and B are LDS and they used that fact to explore several themes that I've seen in my interviews with LDS people about making evaluative decisions as individuals, in families, in church councils, in work settings, and more. The interviews themselves are available here . Many others are available in the first blog post in August 2017. B: In our marriage, the decision came from the basis that husband and wife are equal and therefore they should have equal say in the decisions. It has never mattered that I'm the wage-earner in our home and that essentially 100% of our income comes from me. It isn't my money and her money. It is our money. And therefore I have no more power in my voice than she does in terms of how we choose to spend the money, because we are equal. And that's been the policy ever since the beginning because I think that's how God wants it to be. At least...

DDW Fieldnotes 9/23/2011—Research and Project Ideas Recorded 9/23/2011 and transcription finished 9/26/2011 Research Framework.amr File DDW: Okay, I’m walking along thinking here. I want to talk about my research project ideas. Yesterday I got working on analyzing some of the stories from Terkel’s “Working” book. And they’re so rich and full of evaluation. So I wanted to start sorting out some of what I’ve got. 1. First, I have sources of lived evaluation stories from “working”, from all the other books Studs Terkel has written and that other people like him have done, including most biographies. Which would include ethnographies and phenomenologies (like the ones by Max VanManen and his students at http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/sources/ , (1min) journal articles, stories, others. There’s an endless stream of those. 2. I also have my own case studies that I’m conducting with people. And one thing I’ve struggled with those is to know how deep I should take them...

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