http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20041205/evaluating-civic-engagement-projects Love your life online. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20041205/evaluating-civic-engagement-projects/comment-page-1#comment-117 Amy Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:02:53 +0000 http://alexandrasamuel.com/blog/?p=16#comment-117 Thanks for giving me (and others!) the heads up on these resources. Going back to our discussion about social inequalies and deliberation - depending on what you define as fair, evaluation of deliberations can be really tricky. The evaluation surveys i've seen have focused on whether particpants felt they had the opportunity to participate, not actual participation rates. Everybody's happy on the survey because good deliberation processes always ensure the opportunity is there. But getting at actual participation & non - participation is a whole other story - how do you evaluate who are the dominant/authoritative voices in the discussion and whether those are evenly distributed among participants of different backgrounds? stuff i'm grappling with... cheers! Thanks for giving me (and others!) the heads up on these resources. Going back to our discussion about social inequalies and deliberation – depending on what you define as fair, evaluation of deliberations can be really tricky. The evaluation surveys i’ve seen have focused on whether particpants felt they had the opportunity to participate, not actual participation rates. Everybody’s happy on the survey because good deliberation processes always ensure the opportunity is there. But getting at actual participation & non – participation is a whole other story – how do you evaluate who are the dominant/authoritative voices in the discussion and whether those are evenly distributed among participants of different backgrounds? stuff i’m grappling with… cheers!

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