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Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Cultural Competence & Capacity Building By: Nate Hartman, Chris Hunter, Terry Martin, & Kristin Williams. Evaluator Credibility Explicit Values Cultural Viability Formal Agreements Justified Conclusions & Decisions. Cultural Competence. Joint Committee On Standards

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Chapter 9

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  1. Chapter 9 Cultural Competence & Capacity Building By: Nate Hartman, Chris Hunter, Terry Martin, & Kristin Williams

  2. Evaluator Credibility • Explicit Values • Cultural Viability • Formal Agreements • Justified Conclusions • & Decisions Cultural Competence Joint Committee On Standards For Educational Evaluation Karen Kirkhart (1994) • -Multicultural influences shape or are shaped by our work • Culture Validity • Understand • the culture • -Race, ethnicity, gender, religion, social economics

  3. Evaluator Credibility- Credibility in the context of program & evaluation Explicit Values- clarification of specific cultural values reinforcing purpose, process, & judgments Cultural Viability- Recognizing, monitoring, and balancing cultural & political interests Formal Agreements- Consideration of cultural contexts Justified Conclusions & Decisions- Justified in the culture and context where they have consequences

  4. Why is it important? • Assist evaluator with the issues of concern to the stakeholders • Consider multiple perspectives • Collect valid data, sensitive to the norms, perspectives, and beliefs • Analyze and interpret data to achieve valid results • Increase the legitimacy of the evaluation for all stakeholders • Increase the usefulness and use of the results • Recognize problems with inequality/ Improve Social equality and democratic values in the way the evaluation was conducted.

  5. Effects an Evaluation has on an Organization • -Process use, illustrate the impact • Evaluators recognized impact • changes about themselves • -The evaluative ways of thinking about • the employees in the organization • -Learning, influenced the organization Michael Patton Evaluation’s role Accountability increased in the last decade With those requirements, more responsibilities for agency employees • Evaluations, more popular • Accountability • Collect & Report evaluative data

  6. Evaluation’s Roles: Recognition- evaluation has an impact beyond programs Evaluate how to make decisions Impact on Organizations 2 Discussions: Mainstream Evaluation & Build Evaluative Capacity

  7. The Course Selection Process Teacher makes course recommendation Student take course request form home Parent reviews, signs, and returns Middle school counselor reviews and sends to high school

  8. What do we mean by mainstreaming evaluation or evaluation capacity building? Is it desirable? Mainstreaming Evaluation Sanders (2002): • discussed that it is an integral part of an organization’s daily operations • part of culture and responsibilities at all levels Duignan and Wandersman(2003): • need to be adapted to school settings • part of everyday decision-making process • provides opportunity for empowerment Working definition: • Mainstreaming evaluation is a process that involves people at all levels on a daily basis to make informed decisions. (RTII)

  9. Evaluation Capacity Building: Stockdill (2002): • “an action system of guided practices and processes for bringing about and sustaining a state of affairs in which quality program evaluation and its appropriate uses are ordinary and ongoing practices within and/or between one or more organizations/programs/sites.” ECB vs. Traditional: • ECC are ongoing a person involves to assure the environment is “conducive” to evaluation and is being used within the organization. • Traditional evaluation system usually are a one shot evaluation of a program or policy.

  10. For and ECB to work: -history -culture -structure -context of the organization Purpose of an ECB: “ to build an organization’s capacity, receptiveness, and use of evaluation” (King, 2002) Where is ECB being used: -In American Evaluation Association (2008) reported that over 54% - organizations are utilizing ECB.  Examples: -World Bank -American Cancer Society -U.S. Center for Disease Control

  11. Is it desirable?

  12. Create attention to new roles Build organizational capacity, receptiveness, and use of evaluation The role of evaluators are quite distinct from evaluation studies Evaluation Capacity Development Group - www.ecdg.net Building Evaluation Capacity

  13. Multidisciplinary Model of ECB Preskill and Boyle (2008)

  14. Future of ECB-Preskill and Boyle

  15. Questions? .

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