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Arévalo Gross, Cinthia Josette; Rodríguez-Bilella, Pablo; Olavarría, Claudia – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
Evaluation has been expanding as an important discipline in Latin America, yet there are significant challenges regarding capacity development through educational and training initiatives in the region. This paper first analyzes the evolution and state of the field in terms of the teaching of, and training in evaluation in Latin America, with a…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods, Specialists
Goodnight, Melissa Rae – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
This study analyzes evaluation influence theories to understand their unified contributions to a conceptual framework for research on evaluation influence in non-western contexts. Specifically, these theories are analyzed according to their usefulness for interpreting the consequences of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)--a cyclical,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Research, Citizen Participation, Cultural Context
Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Sitter, Kathleen C.; Van Bavel, Marisa; Wright, Alysia – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Actively engaging adolescents in meaningful program evaluation is a topic of growing interest. One possibility for such engagement is the use of photographs as part of visual evaluation, so that youth can directly engage with the research process. In this Method Note, we describe the development and implementation of a participatory, photo-based…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Photography, Evaluation Methods, Health Promotion
Thieme, Alison; Glennie, Erin; Oddo, Perry; McCartney, Sean; Ruid, Madeline; Anand, Anupam – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Deforestation is an environmental stressor that dramatically threatens biodiversity while having adverse, deep-rooted, socioeconomic impacts. Interventions to address deforestation require considerable long-term investments; therefore, assessing their impact is crucial. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity encourages establishing protected…
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Forestry, Outcome Measures, Conservation (Environment)
Chilisa, Bagele; Mertens, Donna M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Transformative change is needed if the world is to achieve the sustainable development goals. Such change requires attention to culture, ethics, and values. We discuss the need to be responsive to the voices of Indigenous scholars in terms of the assumptions that guide methodological choices in the evaluation of international initiatives. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Social Change, Cultural Relevance
Syeda, Maisha M.; Fournie, Meghan; Ibanez, Maria C.; Crooks, Claire V. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Community-based partnerships are integral to mental health programming and research. However, there are limited published guidelines that apply the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), especially within the context of supporting vulnerable youth populations. This article demonstrates the application of the CBPR principles…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Community Involvement, Participatory Research
Olejniczak, Karol; Newcomer, Kathryn E.; Meijer, Sebastiaan A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Evaluation professionals need to be nimble and innovative in their approaches in order to be relevant and provide useful evidence to decision-makers, stakeholders, and society in the crowded public policy landscape. In this article, we offer serious games as a method that can be employed by evaluators to address three persisting challenges in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Stakeholders, Participation, Evaluation Utilization
Mapitsa, Caitlin Blaser; Ngwato, Tara Polzer – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Brown, Martha A.; Di Lallo, Sherri – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Talking Circles are safe spaces where relationships are built, nurtured, reinforced, and sometimes healed; where norms and values are established; and where people connect intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally with other members of the Circle. The Circle can also be an evaluation method that increases voice, decreases invisibility, and does…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Relevance, Evaluation Methods, Social Justice
Arensman, Bodille – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Advocacy outcomes are not self-evident. Identifying advocacy outcomes is extremely difficult because they are often intangible, arising from (personal) interactions, and they are not always traceable. This challenges conventional evaluation methods, which is recognized in the advocacy evaluation literature. However, current evaluation methods…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Outcome Measures, Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Stickl Haugen, Jaimie; Chouinard, Jill Anne – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
The concept of power is a complex and often intangible aspect of the evaluation process that is frequently a focal topic among the conceptual evaluation literature concerning collaborative or culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) contexts. Unfortunately, there remains a significant theory to practice gap as power is often rarely addressed or…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Culturally Relevant Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Cooperation
Richardson, Emma Z. L.; Phillips, Mary; Colom, Alejandra; Nichols, Jennica – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Program participants have been largely excluded as an evidence source in realist evaluations. We test whether and how lived experience as described through life history interviews with pilot program participants can be used as a valid and unique source of data for elucidating context (C)--mechanism (M)--outcome (O) configurations and informing…
Descriptors: Experience, Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Evaluation Methods
Andrews, Naomi C. Z.; Pepler, Debra J.; Motz, Mary – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Researcher--community partnerships are a necessary but not sufficient facet of effective research and evaluation with community-based projects and in clinical settings. This article describes two approaches that we have integrated into a multiyear, multiphase research and evaluation initiative supporting the health and well-being of vulnerable…
Descriptors: Well Being, At Risk Persons, Trauma, Community Involvement
Pattyn, Valérie; Molenveld, Astrid; Befani, Barbara – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is gaining ground in evaluation circles, but the number of applications is still limited. In this article, we consider the challenges that can emerge during a QCA evaluation by drawing on our experience of conducting one in the field of development cooperation. For each stage of the evaluation process, we…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Svensson, Kate; Szijarto, Barbara; Milley, Peter; Cousins, J. Bradley – American Journal of Evaluation, 2018
Social innovations (SIs) frequently bring previously unrelated actors, ideas, and practices together in new configurations with the goal of addressing social needs. However, the dizzying variety of definitions of SI and their dynamic, exploratory character raise dilemmas for evaluators tasked with their evaluations. This article is based on a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Innovation, Evaluation Research, Comparative Analysis