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Reflections by Eden Kingon Themes and Next Steps
Pages 47-52

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... In other words, everything that makes good measurement and evaluation difficult is amplified in the context of sexual harassment. The challenge of conducting high-quality evaluation of sexual harassment prevention efforts includes such issues as selection bias, social desirability concerns, construct ambiguity, event history, consequential validity, emotional reactivity, confidentiality, legal considerations, introspective 47
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... THEMATIC SYNTHESIS Theme 1: Evaluation as a systematic, strategic process. Workshop presenters described a variety of best practices in training and program evaluation that might be applied to the specific case of sexual harassment prevention efforts.
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... One of the features of sexual harassment prevention efforts is that they are often designed with multiple explicit purposes -- they set out to affect not only short-term, proximal, or immediate goals (like increasing knowledge and awareness) , but also longer-term, distal, or systemic goals (like improving the recruitment and retention of female faculty in male-dominated fields)
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... Nearly every presenter in the workshop mentioned the importance of context, and indeed, it is a critical component of every model that could be applied to program evaluation. In the case of harassment prevention, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM, 2018; hereafter, National Academies)
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... NEXT STEPS The observations noted above and in the workshop highlight the challenging variety of requirements for high-quality evaluation of harassment prevention efforts. In my view, it would not be possible to specify one single strategy or approach to this process that could adequately inform effective evaluation across the wide range of contexts and goals.
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... In addition to providing this guidance, I think an exciting next step for the National Academies' community would be to ideate, encourage, implement, and evaluate efforts in research and practice that explore the integration of DEI and harassment. I understand that a National Academies workshop on DEI is being organized as I type this paper; I would strongly encourage the explicit consideration of sexual harassment prevention (and the typical elements of sexual harassment prevention practice and research)
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