Participatory Evaluation for Researchers — Super Team Guide | Issue 8 of 12
Who's This For
You run workshops where participants produce something — a broader impacts draft, a mentoring plan, a data management statement, a partnership design document. Afterward, you need to assess quality. Maybe you score the work yourself. Maybe you hire an external evaluator. Maybe you collect everything and nobody ever scores it at all.
You know the assessment process could be more useful. Participants submit their work and wait. They get a score or a paragraph of feedback. They revise or they do not. The scoring happened to them. They were not part of it.
This issue is for you if you have ever felt that assessment is a missed learning opportunity — that the act of evaluating quality could itself build the skills your program is trying to develop. You are about to turn scoring from something done to participants into something done with and by participants.