Thursday, December 22, 2011

Guide Now Available!

We are excited to announce that the new resource we have been creating, Career Centre Evaluation: A Practitioner Guide, is now available.

Many thanks to everyone who has been involved in this project, from reading drafts and providing feedback, to sharing encouraging words about the value of this initiative.

To let others know about this new resource we'll be putting our communication plan into full swing in January, including a presentation at CANNEXUS on Tuesday, January 24, 10-11:30 am. Would love to see you there!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New article of interest in Canadian Psychology

Our guide uses an evaluation framework created by the CRWG (Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence Based Practice in Career Development). For those of you following their work, if you haven't yet seen it, you may be interested in a new article in Canadian Psychology by one of the CRWG members.



Hiebert, B., Domene, J.F., & Buchanan, M. (2011).The power of multiple methods and evidence sources: raising the profile of Canadian counselling psychology research. Canadian Psychology, 52, 265–275.


I became aware of this article as the authors cite our evaluation guide initiative as an example of a project that uses their framework. Thanks for the mention!

Monday, November 14, 2011

External feedback stage complete - Thank you!

Thank you to the career centre staff and directors from across Canada who reviewed the draft guide and gave us their feedback. We had great geographic representation - with reviewers from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Your feedback has been very helpful.

We are now in the final stages of finishing the guide and we should be launching it publicly later this fall!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

New website for evaluation group

If you are interested in evaluation in career services in Canada, then I'm guessing that you, like I, try to follow the work of the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence Based Practice in Career Development (or CRWG for short).

I recently noticed that they have a new design for their website, and lots of information about their activities. I thought I'd share this in case you haven't seen it yet. Just click the link on their name above.