About the presenter
Paidamoyo Chikate (Paida), is a PhD student in Evaluation Studies and Data Analytics in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Her background is in international development, public policy and evaluation. She has worked for the Open Society Foundations with small scale West African female farmers and for the United Nations on Sustainable Development Goals 5 AND 6 in Africa. Locally, she has worked with the Minneapolis Metropolitan Council to evaluate access to the seven-county transit system for people living with disabilities. As a self-proclaimed evaluation ethicist, her dissertation research focuses on the ethical orientations of evaluators and seeks to create a more robust evaluation ethics framework for the field which focuses on accountability. She currently works as the Director of Evaluation at World Savvy, a national education organization with a focus on global competency out of Minneapolis.
Presentation description
Evaluators are complex human beings that do their work for many different reasons. Those reasons are a reflection of their ethical standards, and though they are often very difficult to define, ethics can be described in terms of a person’s principles of morality and concepts of good behavior towards and against specific ideas and perspectives. The values, principles and ethics that evaluators hold are often alluded to in the scholarly literature, but have not been well defined and measured. This presentation will focus on preliminary evaluator data that has been collected about individual values/ethics, their work values/ethics, their professional values/ethics, and their evaluation practice values/ethics.
