Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation

Stakeholder Involvement Approaches

David M. Fetterman, Liliana Rodriguez-Campos, Ann P. Zukoski, and Contributors

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781462532858
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

From pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the authors focus on the role of the evaluator, who may be in charge of the evaluation, share control, or serve as a "critical friend, " leaving stakeholders in control. Practitioners are guided to select and implement the most appropriate framework for the purpose and scope of a given evaluation and the needs of community members and funders. For each approach, a chapter on essential features is followed by two chapters presenting actual sample evaluations--for example, early childhood and community health initiatives, an aquarium, a project with Google, and more. The concluding chapter discusses similarities and circumstances in which the approaches can be combined.

Table of contents

• Cover
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• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. An Introduction to Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation Approaches
• 2. Essentials of Collaborative Evaluation
• 3. A Collaborative Evaluation of an Aquarium (Marine Life Program)
• 4. Collaborative Evaluation of a Multisite, Multipurpose, Multiyear Early Childhood Quality Care Initiative
• 5. Essentials of Participatory Evaluation
• 6. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Health Improvement Initiative
• 7. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Justice Program for Sex Offenders
• 8. Essentials of Empowerment Evaluation
• 9. An Empowerment Evaluation of a Comprehensive Sex Education Initiative
• 10. A Google-Enhanced Empowerment Evaluation Approach in a Graduate School Program
• 11. Similarities across the Three Approaches: Principles and Practices in Common
• 12. Conclusion: Highlighting the Present and Looking to the Future
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors
• About the Contributors
• About Guilford Press
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