Evaluator Perspective
| Author | Lyn Alderman |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X221121400 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Special Features |
Special Feature
Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2022, Vol. 22(4) 282–284
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Evaluator Perspective
Lyn Alderman
Introduction
As someone with over 40 years employment experience, I stepped into evaluation
through a research higher degree pathway and found a home in evaluation when I
attended my first Australian Evaluation Association international conference in Perth in
2008 as a student. Due to my prior qualifications, I undertook my postgraduate study
within a School of Education. This was challenging for someone studying evaluation,
and the Australian Evaluation Society offered the evaluation disciplinary support I was
looking for. Since this time, I have been the President, Editor of the Evaluation Journal
of Australasia, journal author, journal reviewer, conference presenter and attendee.
From my perspective, I had found my evaluation home.
How did you become involved in internal evaluation?
In 2007, there was a position advertised by Queensland University of Technology
(QUT) for an Evaluation Coordinator whose role was to use the student evaluation
feedback data to improve the quality of the student experience. As I was researching
within this space, and the usual employment opportunities were focused solely in
reporting the data, I was excited and applied for the role. This started my journey as an
internal evaluator, and I spent ten years as the lead internal evaluator at QUT. My major
achievement was a six-year project leading the university-wide organisational change
project titled Reframe: QUT’s new approach to evaluation.
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