Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation – Page 10

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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LGBT Week: Robin Lin Miller & Miles McNall on Putting Disempowered People at the Center of the Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / February 16, 2011 February 14, 2011

Can community members be meaningfully engaged in evaluations when time is short? Our experience suggests that they can. We are Robin Lin Miller and Miles McNall. Robin is Professor of Ecological and Community Psychology and Miles is Associate Director of the Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative, both at Michigan State University. We have evaluated community-based …

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WMU Scribing: Kristin Hobson on the Construct Validity of Race

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / January 20, 2011 January 21, 2011

The version below is updated and revised at the request of the presenter. My name is Kristin Hobson. I am in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. Recently, I participated in AEA’s annual conference in San Antonio where I learned from presentations given by colleagues. I served as a session scribe …

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Frances Carter on Evaluating the Race Matters Toolkit and Resources for Student Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 11, 2011 January 3, 2011

I am Frances Carter, a Public Policy PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. As a member of AEA’s 2009-2010 cohort of GEDIs (pronounced JEDI; acronym for Graduate Education and Diversity Internship), I developed an evaluation plan for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race Matter’s Toolkit. The Race Matters Toolkit (RMT) was designed …

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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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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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Tamara Bertrand Jones on Finding and Working With a Mentor

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 4, 2010 June 2, 2010

I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones and I evaluate programs and services in Student Affairs at Florida State University. I’ve always been intrigued by the ways that different people develop the skills they need in order to be successful in their chosen profession. Fundamental to the success of budding evaluators is the important interaction with successful evaluation …

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Jenny Jones on Tips for working with Community-based Organizations

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / March 10, 2010 May 5, 2010

My name is Jenny Jones, and I am an Associate Professor in the school of social work at Virginia Commonwealth University. I have spent a considerable amount of time engaging in evaluation research with numerous community based organizations. The majority of my work is done in communities of color, specifically within the African American community …

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