Thursday, September 12, 2013, Koʻolau Ballrooms, Kāneʻohe
by Marina A. Piscolish
9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Thursday, September 12, 2013 (lunch provided, 12:00 pm, Honey's at Ko'olau restaurant)
Managing expectations, relationships and negotiating the work – all at the same time is a tall order and one that not all evaluators feel prepared to meet. Conflict Resolution is the integration of three critical skill sets: effective communication, collaborative problem solving and emotion management. Every evaluator knows that the best evaluations produce sound information to support accountability, inform planning and strengthen program implementation – all while nurturing relationships to enhance confidence in the evaluator and commitment to effective use of results. This highly interactive three-hour Introduction to Conflict Resolution workshop is designed to support evaluators’ capacity to manage emotions, listen deeply, understand client needs, and form collaborative problem statements that can be used to generate creative solutions to challenges, whatever their source may be. While intended only as an introduction, this session will provide knowledge and skills of immediate practical value to participants.
Agenda
:10 Conflict as an Opportunity for Positive Change
:20 Conflict Styles and their Role in Shaping Outcomes
:60 Concepts and Skills of Collaborative Problem Solving and CR
:15 Break
:15 Demonstration
:30 Practice Active Listening, Reframing & Collaborative Problem Statements
:05 Closing Comments
:10 Participant Reflections
:05 Session Evaluation
This workshop will benefit from Marina’s rich island-based experiences as an evaluator, facilitator, mediator and trainer of collaboration and conflict resolution.
A Sampling of Clients Served
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by Matthew Militello and Christopher Janson
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Thursday, September 12, 2013 (lunch provided, 12:00 pm, Honey's at Ko'olau restaurant)
Q methodology uses distinct psychometric principles and operational procedures in order to provide researchers with the means to systematically and rigorously identify, describe, and examine human subjectivity (see www.qmethod.org). In doing so, Q methodology uses correlation and factor analysis to reveal the subjective structures of attitudes, opinions, or perspectives that are shared by people around virtually any topic. Participants at this workshop will not only learn about the theoretical elements of Q methodology as a research tool, but will learn about how the presenters have applied Q methodology as an process for community-engaged evaluation which they have called “inQuiry.” Importantly, attendees will also participate in a real-time inQuiry process. Participants will receive guides and tools in order to conceptualize and frame their own Q studies or evaluative process.
Learning Outcomes
Agenda
What is Q methodology (development, psychometric properties, uses)
Card Sorting (Q sort) Activity—Participants will sort a set of statements around a topic. This is the main element of Q methodology. Here participants will first experience ths innovative data collection process. Later in the session participants will see how the data are analyzed and used in an interpretive activity.
Elements of the Q Process
Participatory, Collective Analyses of Participant Card Sort
Closing
Web: http://ncsu.academia.edu/MatthewMilitello |
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Dr. Militello and Dr. Janson have been working together since 2003. That year they worked in the same public school, Dr. Militello as assistant principal and Janson as a school counselor. Since then they have been using Q methodology and digital storytelling in their research, program evaluation, and community development. They are currently evaluators on a US DOE Office of Postsecondary Education: Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, “Preparing Leaders to Support the Education of Diverse Learners” (http://www.lsdl.wikispaces.net/) and a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant, “Collective Leadership Exchange” (www.communitylearningexchange.org). |
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updated 07/11/2013