Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation – Page 7

Dianne Hofner Saphiere on Interculturally Competent Evaluation

My name is Dianne Hofner Saphiere and I am Founder and Principal at Cultural Detective®. We are a team of international professionals who collaborate to produce practical tools that use a theoretically grounded, proven process for enhancing intercultural competence. At Evaluation 2011 I’ll be facilitating a session entitled “Interculturally Competent Evaluation,” so I appreciate this …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 4, 2011 June 3, 2011

Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and Saturday contributor for aea365. I’m excited to be able to share this week that AEA is now taking applications for the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. The goals of GEDI are to: Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other underrepresented groups who …

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Scribing: Vidhya Shanker on Discussions Regarding the AEA Cultural Competence Statement

4 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / April 14, 2011 April 4, 2011

This is Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. I served as an Evaluation 2010 scribe for Think Tank Session 242, Cultural Competency in Evaluation: Discussion of the American Evaluation Association’s Public Statement on the Importance of Cultural Competence in Evaluation. Discussion was organized into small groups, each of which focused on …

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Kate McKegg on Developing Evaluator Competencies

1 Comment / Independent Consulting, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / February 22, 2011 February 10, 2011

Kia ora and New Year Greetings to my evaluation colleagues. My name is Kate McKegg. I am an independent evaluation consultant based in New Zealand. My company, The Knowledge Institute Ltd is a member of a professional network – the Kinnect Group. I am a founding member and former Convenor for the Aotearoa New Zealand …

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Andrea Johnston on the Waawiyeyaa Evaluation Tool

2 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / October 1, 2010 April 20, 2011

Ahneen, hello. My people are from Neyaashiinigmiing, Ontario, Canada and I live in Toronto, Ontario. My name is Andrea L.K. Johnston and I run a small evaluation and research firm named Johnston Research Inc. Our logo is a butterfly that visually displays the initials JR in its wings. The butterfly represents rebirth and transformation, which …

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Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio on Collaborative Inquiry

2 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 31, 2010 September 17, 2010

Hello, we are Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio, and both program evaluators doing work within the field of education in Hawai`i. Our work involves using indigenous ways of teaching and learning to inform culturally relevant and responsive ways of conducting research and evaluation studies. One of our recent projects involved working with Hawaiian-focused charter schools …

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Susan Geier on Using a Participatory Evaluation Approach

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / August 26, 2010 August 24, 2010

Hi, my name is Susan Geier and I am a doctoral student at Purdue University studying research methods, measurement and evaluation. I employ a participatory evaluation approach with the GEMscholar project and have learned much from the Native American college students and the dedicated program staff. Lessons Learned: I would like to share my three …

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Gerri Spilka on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellowship Program

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 2, 2010 June 28, 2010

My name is Gerri Spilka and I am the Executive Director of the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning – a consulting firm that assists and assesses change through evaluation, strategic research and planning, grants management and capacity building. Among our many projects, OMG serves as the lead management team on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation …

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Rodney Hopson on Culturally Responsive Evaluation

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / March 7, 2010 August 24, 2010

My name is Rodney Hopson. I am a faculty member in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education at Duquesne University. For the last several years (with a host of great colleagues in AEA, with Torres Consulting Group and OMG Center for Collaborative Learning with the support of the National …

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