Digitalization is part of our
everyday life. With the COVID19 pandemic, the use of digital technologies has
become even more profound. This also
applies to the evaluation community.
Increasingly, we come across terms such as Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Web Scraping, Big Data. Digitalization affects many areas of evaluation - from the availability of data sets to the
speed of processing them to the speed
of implementing recommendations. Nevertheless,
the understanding of the meaning and use of
these terms varies in the evaluation community.
In order to contribute to
clarifying and further developing the
current debate about digitalization in evaluation, the European Evaluation Society´s Thematic Working Group 6 on methods and designs and Working Group 7 on EU Policies, together with the Working Group 2 on Quantitative methods and data
collection of the COST Action CA20112 PROFEEDBACK organised an online workshop on 30-31
March 2023 about digitalization in evaluations and evaluations of digitalization.
European Evaluation Society (EES)
www.europeanevaluation.org
COST Action CA20112 - PlatfoRm OF policy Evaluation
community for improvED EU policies and Better ACKnowledgement (PROFEEDBACK)
www.profeedback.eu
European Cooperation in Science
and Technology (COST)
www.cost.eu