Alexandra Williams Member since 30/03/2023

Alexandra Williams is a consultant for Quadrant Conseil. She participates in public policy evaluation missions to European and national administrations and local authorities. Alexandra is a lecturer at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon as part of the Master's degree in "Evaluation and monitoring of public policies".

Alexandra previously participated for 2 years in an immigration research project as an assistant researcher at Simon Fraser University.

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What kind of evaluator are you? Exploring different evaluator paradigms
31 Mar 2023
People are often worried about the “right way” of doing things. As an evaluator, you may have come across other evaluators and thought “their way of evaluating is just like mine” or, indeed, the opposite, “I wouldn’t have approached the subject or data collection in that way”. But what if there is no one good way, but several, shaped by your personal worldview? The notion of evaluator paradigms This is what Egon Guba and Yvonna Lincoln [1] suggested in the late 1980s with the notion of “evaluator paradigms”. They used the term not so much in the sense of scientific paradigms, but rather to...
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