The role of culture and cultural context : a mandate for inclusion, the discovery of truth and understanding in evaluative theory and practice

This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation. We ask, should evaluation be culturally responsive? Is the field heading in the right direction in its attempt to become more culturally responsive? We ask, what is...

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Other Authors Hood, Stafford (Editor), Hopson, Rodney K. (Editor), Frierson, Henry T. 1944- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, [2005]
Subjects
Educational evaluation > Social aspects > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Education > Evaluation & Assessment.
Education: examinations and assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116472
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-783-1
Physical Description1 online resource (244 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : this is where we stand / Stafford Hood, Rodney Hopson, and Henry Frierson
  • Evaluators as stewards of the public good / Jennifer C. Greene
  • Through a cultural lens : reflections on validity and theory in evaluation / Karen E. Kirkhart
  • Persuasive language, responsive design : a framework for interculturally responsive evaluation / Melvin Hall and Denise Ward Hood
  • Promoting culturally reliable and valid evaluation practice / Sharon Nelson-Barber, Joan LaFrance, Elise Trumbull, and Sofia Aburto
  • An untold story in evaluation roots : Reid E. Jackson and his contributions toward culturally responsive evaluation at three quarters of a century / Rodney Hopson and Stafford Hood
  • Learning to play scholarly jazz : a culturally responsive evaluation of the Hopi teachers for Hopi schools project / Carolyne J. White and Mary Hermes
  • The PENAL project : program evaluation and native American liability / Guy Senese
  • It starts with a Machete : the politics and poetics of space In urban school reform / Nona M. Burney, Carolyne J. White, and Mary E. Weems
  • Using theory-driven evaluation with underserved communities : promoting program development and program sustainability / Katrina L. Bledsoe
  • Cultural reflections stemming from the evaluation of an undergraduate research program / Michelle Jay, Dedra Eatmon, and Henry T. Frierson
  • The use of contextually relevant evaluation practices with programs designed to increase participation of minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education / Elmima Johnson.

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