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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Update on progress

I haven't been posting here since Sept 2017 but I've been busy transcribing interviews and linking them in the folders created in the first post in August 2017. Today I've been reviewing several interviews I conducted with my son Greg when he was in high school and then when he was an undergraduate and then a graduate student. On page 110 of the 136 pages of his transcripts, he gives and explains this formula he began developing as he was in a program evaluation class I was teaching at BYU. He does a good job of pulling together thoughts from across more than a decade about his own evaluation life and patterns he sees in others' lives. Here is the formula: Truth + Freedom + The Choice to Self-reflect = The Foundation for Effective Evaluation I invite you to read his analysis that goes into that formula and wrote your thoughts and comments on it if you have any by writing a comment to this post. His document is here .

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...

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...

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