2020 H-PEA Virtual Conference Call-for-Proposal

The 2020 Hawai‘i-Pacific Evaluation Association Virtual Conference will take place virtually October 12 - 16, 2020. Conference sessions will be offered between 8:30am and 12:30pm and participants may attend as many sessions as they would like. To ensure a fruitful and engaging conference, we are conducting a second Call for Proposals and are only soliciting proposals for roundtables or skill-building workshops.

The submission deadline for the second Call for Proposals is 11:59pm on July 1, 2020.

Presentation Formats

Skill-building--Skill-building presentations are 60-minutes of teaching of an evaluation skill. It’s a “show, tell, and apply” presentation that teaches a concept, process, or tool, with most of the time dedicated to hands-on activities that let participants practice what’s demonstrated. Presenters should provide a balance of presentation, discussion, and practice for session attendees. Ideally, workshops will address one or more of the evaluator competencies defined by AEA (See https://www.eval.org/d/do/4382).

Roundtable--60-minute guided discussions; an opportunity to share a work in progress or an issue/concern relevant to evaluators. Roundtable presentations typically include a short presentation, followed by discussion and feedback. Roundtable presenters should bring targeted questions to pose to others at the table in order to learn from and with those attending. Roundtables are an ideal format for networking and focused discussion on a particular topic, including work-in-progress. The abstract should include the targeted questions to be discussed.

Proposal Evaluation Categories
All proposals are peer reviewed based on the following categories:
a) relevance to the field of evaluation
b) contribution to the knowledge, skill-building, and practice of evaluators
c) alignment to the AEA Evaluator Competencies (http://www.eval.org/d/do/4382)
d) implications for evaluation theory or practice; and
e) value to conference attendees.

Proposal components

A proposal requires a title, abstract, choice of format, summary, relevance statement, AEA Evaluator Competency addressed, intended audience, audience level, and theme(s). Proposals should detail the focus of the presentations, the way(s) in which it is relevant to the field of evaluation, its contribution to skill-building, theory, or practice of evaluators, and value to the audience.

Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: 11:59 pm, July 1, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: August 3, 2020 (via email)

Conference registration deadline: October 9, 2020

Primary Contact
Proposal Review Committee Co-Chair:  Sena Sanjines (sesanjin@ksbe.edu)