Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies

This paper first traces the development of competencies for professional evaluators and identifies interpersonal competencies as a key component of evaluator education in the future. It then outlines two roles for evaluators that may affect the application of interpersonal competencies, discusses fo...

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Main Author: Jean King
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
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Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/877
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description This paper first traces the development of competencies for professional evaluators and identifies interpersonal competencies as a key component of evaluator education in the future. It then outlines two roles for evaluators that may affect the application of interpersonal competencies, discusses four ideas for their development, and briefly addresses the possibility of evaluation capacity building. It concludes with a brief discussion of where and how evaluator training or education might effectively teach these competencies and know that people had learned them.
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spelling doaj.art-658fd36034934d6b9c8ca91fdc295d802023-12-12T19:36:17ZengThe Evaluation Center at Western Michigan UniversityJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation1556-81802023-12-011946Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal CompetenciesJean King0University of MinnesotaThis paper first traces the development of competencies for professional evaluators and identifies interpersonal competencies as a key component of evaluator education in the future. It then outlines two roles for evaluators that may affect the application of interpersonal competencies, discusses four ideas for their development, and briefly addresses the possibility of evaluation capacity building. It concludes with a brief discussion of where and how evaluator training or education might effectively teach these competencies and know that people had learned them. https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/877evaluator competencies, interpersonal skills, evaluator education
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Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
evaluator competencies, interpersonal skills, evaluator education
title Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
title_full Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
title_fullStr Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
title_full_unstemmed Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
title_short Evaluator Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Centrality of Developing Evaluators’ Interpersonal Competencies
title_sort evaluator education for the twenty first century the centrality of developing evaluators interpersonal competencies
topic evaluator competencies, interpersonal skills, evaluator education
url https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/877
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