Feedback in Decision-Making 

My strengths in Writing Request for Proposal and Areas for Professional Development

First, I describe my projects in detail and with clarity. My focus when writing a proposal request is to describe my project strengths and the differentiators. Over time, I have learned this valuable skill to identify my uniqueness and use it as a competitive differentiator. Secondly, I have written many papers concerning projects, which has improved my skills in writing requests for proposals. I am vastly competent in meeting the standard requirements of a project by including their features, consideration of ethics, and compliance, which are deemed absolute requirements (Wall & Solutions, 2014). I know what details to include in a request for proposal, such as defining the project, its needs, the project requirements, timelines, and so on.

In addition, I have a little experience in advertising, and I believe a request for a proposal is a typical advertisement. For instance, I have learned to get stakeholder input first before lolling out an ad, which is relevant in writing a request for a proposal. I begin by engaging stakeholders to identify the needs that a particular project will meet. Again, I have learned to write precisely and with specificity in advertising, which improves the rate of approval and clarity of project contracts in writing requests for proposals. Lastly, I have become a great negotiator, enabling better deals in terms of cost and timelines.

Nevertheless, I have identified that I lack a library of questions to ask when engaging stakeholders, and I do not have a template for the RFP, which would make the writing easy. This is one area I look forward to developing. Hopefully, it will increase my turnaround time when dealing with RFP and the project are large. Having such standard questions might improve my interaction with stakeholders and mine more information regarding their needs in various project situations. It will also act as a criterion of evaluation for my performance.

Importance of Adhering to the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation standards

Accuracy standards guarantee that an examination will uncover and transmit technologically appropriate data about the aspects that define the system’s worth or quality. The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Assessment creates assessment guidelines and works to increase the level of regulated testing (Lane, 2016). Standards producing associations are formed to design, promulgate, alter, and reissue technological specifications that belong to a certain business or sector of the chosen profession (Spaulding, 2013). The Joint Committee was formed with the specific goal of creating high standards in intellectual development. It is made up of a partnership of 14 expert organizations concerned with evaluation effectiveness. The American Educational Research Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the American Psychological Association are among the organizations that have sponsored the event.

It must be emphasized that standard assertions should not express the complete scope of whatever Standard. The document contains thorough recommendations and concepts for implementing the criteria in real-world evaluation settings (Yarbrough et al., 2011).  The JCSEE highly urges all assessors and evaluations consumer to study the whole text to become acquainted with the philosophical and actual basis of those standards and applicable applicability to wider instances. The Standards guide assessors in preparing and conducting program evaluating initiatives and assessing consumers in understanding what to anticipate from the review process and deliverables(Yarbrough et al., 2011). Like most people, we know the usefulness of brief guidelines for transferring principles to action from our experience producing and delivering assessment education. This presents reflection questions for every Standard to evaluators. The accuracy requirements are designed to assure that an evaluation will uncover and transmit practically appropriate data about the aspects that define the worth or quality of the program under consideration.

References

Lane, D. (2016). Introduction to Evaluation Plans for Grant Proposals. Retrieved from https://www.northeastipm.org/ipm-planning/evaluation/introduction-to-evaluation-plans-for-grant-proposals/

Spaulding, D. T. (2013). Program evaluation in practice: Core concepts and examples for discussion and analysis. John Wiley & Sons.

Wall, J. E., & Solutions, S. (2014). Program evaluation model 9-step process. Sage Solutions. Http://Region11s4. Lacoe. Edu/Attachments/Article/34, 287(29), 209.

Yarbrough, D. B., Shulha, L. M., Hopson, R. K., & Caruthers, F. A. (2011). Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation–the program evaluation standards: A guide for evaluators and evaluation users. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.