75// Evaluation and the Judgement of "What Is" against "What Should Be" with Dr. David Williams

Today’s guest is my father Dr. David Williams. Dr. Williams is an emeritus professor from the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University where he conducted and studied evaluations of teaching and learning in various settings. He currently serves as a missionary with his wife Denise for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.

Today we discuss:

• Everything Evaluation, what it is, and all of the moving parts associated with it
• The difference between evaluation, measurement, and assessment
• Dr. Williams’ 10 part evaluation model, along with multiple examples

Resources

• Dr. Williams Evaluation Model (image): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEGkVJMQYoJRX2SP4iSEVd8wqYtaRvRQ/view?usp=sharing
• Seven North American Evaluation Pioneers (Book) https://books.google.com/books/about/Seven_North_American_Evaluation_Pioneers.html?id=8HpTDAAAQBAJ
• Twenty-Nine Evaluation Lives (Book) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20273
• Dr. Williams blog with entries about various individual evaluation lives: https://evaluationlives.blogspot.com/2017/08/introduction-and-invitation.html?m=1
• Dr. Williams Qualitative Inquiry book (open access) mentioned in the end of our conversation - https://edtechbooks.org/qualitativeinquiry
• Interview with Dr. Bonnie Beresford (episode 44) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659885
• Interview with Megan Torrence (episode 63) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659853
• Interview with Sam Whitney (episode 26) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659853
• Interview with Beth Wilkins (episode 49) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659879
• Malcolm Gladwell and testing (podcast episode) https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/puzzle-rush/

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