Advisory Board

The ECODIVE Advisory Board’s role is to help ensure that the project adequately evaluates factors affecting conference participation for people from organizations under-recognized in the environmental sciences. Board members will advise on decisions such as data collection instrument designs, interpretations of results, and outlets for disseminating findings. Advisory Board members will join the project’s Steering Committee meetings virtually every quarter for a holistic reflection session and provide feedback on specific questions between meetings.

The Advisory Board is holding ECODIVE to the following five standards as the project unfolds:

1. Utility–To what extent is ECODIVE’s information fostering the readiness of our stakeholders to engage in inclusive conference design?

2. Feasibility–How effective and efficient is ECODIVE in discovering and providing useful information about inclusive conference design?

3. Propriety–To what extent are we doing what is proper, legal, and just in ECODIVE?

4. Accuracy–How dependable and truthful are the representations and findings from ECODIVE likely to be/so far?

5. Accountability–How well are we documenting ECODIVE's work and using it to improve?

These are the five standards for any program evaluation as established by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. As we work, we are taking ownership of these standards to fit them to our context in the environmental sciences. Contact ECODIVE’s evaluator, Dr. Bethany Laursen, for more information.