I’m Wanda Casillas with Deloitte Consulting, LLP and am also Chair of Communications for the newly formed LARED Topical Interest Group. As a practitioner of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) I have been wrestling with the question of what it means to be responsive to Latin@ populations specifically. Many of us that are Latin@ evaluators have …
My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I am an independent evaluation consultant based in Minnesota but working worldwide. I have had the honor and privilege of participating in and presenting at every Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute since it began 20 years ago. A lot has changed in evaluation over the last two decades but …
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Hi everyone! We are three evaluators committed to cultural competence in evaluation, particularly in international contexts. Hanife Cakici is a postdoctoral fellow and independent research consultant whose dissertation work focuses on perceptions of evaluation in Turkey. Lucy El-Sherif is a doctoral student at OISE, University of Toronto, and recently completed an evaluation of community schools …
Hi! We are Osman Özturgut and Lisa Aponte-Soto from the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. Ozturgut is an assistant professor of doctoral studies at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio; and, Aponte-Soto serves as National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at OMG Center for …
I’m Jeff Sheldon from the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University and today I’m introducing the Survey of Empowerment Evaluation Practice, Principles, and Outcomes (SEEPPO). I developed SEEPPO for my dissertation, but more important, as a tool that can be modified for use by researchers on evaluation and evaluation practitioners. …
Hi! We are Kathryn Sielbeck-Mathes and Rebecca Selove, co-authors of Chapter 6 of “Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice”. In our article, based on three evaluations of substance abuse treatment programs for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues, we discuss the importance of framing and shared understanding between evaluators and evaluation stakeholders. …
Greetings from Music City! I am Kathryn Bowen, Vice President for Research & Evaluation at Centerstone Research Institute. I am involved with the planning, implementation, and reporting of multiple program evaluations. Universal professional values like honesty, integrity, accountability, tolerance, and respect for people influence all my work. My feminist values are aligned with fairness, social …
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Hi! I am Don Glass an independent education and evaluation consultant, and a former UDL Fellow at Boston College and CAST. Over the past several years I have been interested in how we can be as inclusive as possible in the gathering and analysis of data, as well as in the sharing and use of …
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My name is Josey Landrieu, Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. One of the things I enjoy the most about my work is the opportunity to collaborate with external partners in research and evaluation projects. Liliana Rodriguez-Campos (2005) defines collaborative evaluation as “an evaluation in which there …
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My name is Brian Silvey, and I am an Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Director of the Symphonic Band at the University of Missouri. I constantly struggle with how to best assess my students. One thing I do know is that using a point system does not seem to work for me. What …
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