{"id":4960,"date":"2016-11-11T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:13:28","slug":"participatory-evaluation-nlm-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/11\/11\/participatory-evaluation-nlm-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Evaluation, NLM Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, I invite you to stop reading and start doing.<\/p>\n

Okay, wait. Don\u2019t go yet.\u00a0 Let me explain. I am challenging you to be a participant-observer in a very important assessment project being conducted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).<\/p>\n

The NEO is part of the National Library of Medicine\u2019s program (The National Network of Libraries of Medicine) that promotes use of NLM\u2019s extensive body of health information resources.\u00a0 The NLM is devoted to advancing the progress of medicine and improving the public health through access to health information. Whether you\u2019re a librarian, health care provider, public health worker, patient\/consumer, researcher, student, educator, or emergency responder fighting health-threatening disasters, the NLM has high quality, open-access health information for you.<\/p>\n

Now the NLM is working on a long-range plan to enhance its service to its broad user population.\u00a0 It is inviting the public to provide input on its future direction and priorities. Readers, you are a stakeholder in the planning process. Here is your chance to contribute to the vision. Just click here<\/a> to participate.<\/p>\n

And, because you are an evaluation-savvy NLM stakeholder, your participation will allow you to experience a strength-based participatory evaluation method in action.\u00a0 Participatory evaluation<\/em> refers to evaluation projects that engage a wide swath of stakeholders. Strength-based evaluation<\/em> approaches are those that focus on getting stakeholders to identify the best of organizations and suggest ways to build on those strengths. Appreciative Inquiry is one of the most widely recognized strength-based approaches. The NEO blog have posts featuring Appreciative Inquiry projects here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I have no idea if the NLM\u2019s long-range planning team explicitly used Appreciative Inquiry for developing their Request for Information, their questions definitely embody the spirit of strength-based assessment. I\u2019m not going to post all of the question here because I want readers to go to the RFI to see the questions for themselves. But as a teaser, here\u2019s the first question that appears in each area of inquiry addressed in the feedback form:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIdentify what you consider an audacious goal in this area \u2013 a challenge that may be daunting but would represent a huge leap forward were it to be achieved.\u00a0 Include any proposals for the steps and elements needed to reach that goal. The most important thing NLM does in this area, from your perspective.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So be an observer: check out the NLM\u2019s Request for Information<\/a>.\u00a0 Notice how they constructed a strength-based participant feedback form.<\/p>\n

Then be a participant: take a few minutes to post your vision for the future of NLM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I invite you to stop reading and start doing. Okay, wait. Don\u2019t go yet.\u00a0 Let me explain. I am challenging you to be a participant-observer in a very important assessment project being conducted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The NEO is part of the National Library of Medicine\u2019s program (The National… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questionnaires-and-surveys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}