scholarly journals Empowering Principals in Peer Review: The Value of an Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Educational Improvement

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-222
Author(s):  
Kerrie Ikin
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Educational Improvement ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach

scholarly journals Empowerment Evaluation: A Case Study of Citywide Implementation Within an HIV Prevention Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Phillips ◽  
Peter Lindeman ◽  
Christian N. Adames ◽  
Emily Bettin ◽  
Christopher Bayston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Learning Focused

HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions but have largely overlooked the complex environment in which these interventions are implemented, including other programs funded to do similar work. The Evaluation Center was funded by the City of Chicago in 2015 to conduct a citywide evaluation of all HIV prevention programming. This article will describe our novel approach to adapt the principles and methods of the empowerment evaluation approach, to effectively engage with 20 city-funded prevention programs to collect and synthesize multisite evaluation data, and ultimately build capacity at these organizations to foster a learning-focused community.

Application of a Multisite Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Increase Evaluation Capacity Among HIV Services Providers: Results From Project Pride in Chicago

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-S5
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Beach ◽  
Emma Reidy ◽  
Rachel Marro ◽  
Amy K. Johnson ◽  
Peter Lindeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
National Initiative ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Building Activities

In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Project PrIDE, a national initiative to implement and evaluate demonstration projects to increase PrEP uptake among HIV-negative individuals and to re-engage HIV-positive individuals in HIV care. Our team served as the Evaluation Center for Project PrIDE organizations in Chicago and used an empowerment evaluation (EE) approach to enhance evaluation capacity at these organizations. To evaluate our approach, we assessed organizations' evaluation capacity and engagement in technical assistance and capacity building activities in 2016 and 2018. Respondents who self-reported higher engagement with the Evaluation Center and who spent a greater number of hours engaged with our evaluators experienced greater increases in evaluation capacity tied to implementation of evaluation activities and technical assistance utilization. These findings demonstrate that multisite EE can be successfully applied to increase the evaluation capacity of organizations providing both HIV prevention and care services.

Participatory evaluation is the sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed”

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Rogers ◽  
Nea Harrison ◽  
Therese Puruntatameri ◽  
Alberta Puruntatameri ◽  
Joan Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Participatory evaluation can be embedded in programs to support good governance and facilitate informed decision making in Aboriginal communities in remote and urban contexts. An Aboriginal Elder from the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia described participatory evaluation as a sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed.” The metaphor refers to the long-term and broad approach undertaken when a complex community development program used participatory processes to build evaluation capacity and solve problems. The evaluation approach ensured the program was inclusive, responsive, empowering, and resulted in direct benefits for the communities. This article addresses the lack of literature on applying developmental and empowerment evaluation approaches in practice by describing the methods, tools, and use of evaluation findings. The value of participating for the community members and partner organizations is shared and the benefits and implications for participants and the evaluator are discussed. The authors hope this article inspires practitioners and evaluators to consider participatory ways of working with communities to support community directed action and social change.

Experiential Education and Empowerment Evaluation: Mars Rover Educational Program Case Example

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fetterman ◽  
Cassie Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Education ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Mars Rover ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
City Schools ◽  
Recent Evaluation

Experiential education and empowerment evaluation are in alignment conceptually and in practice. They represent mutually reinforcing educational tools with similar values. The purpose of this discussion is to present the basics of this evaluation approach and demonstrate how user-friendly it was in a recent evaluation of an experiential program. Empowerment evaluation is the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. Program participants conduct their own evaluations with the assistance of an evaluator. Empowerment evaluation has been adopted in a wide array of settings, including tribal reservations, inner city schools, higher education, non-profit programs, and the Environmental Protection Agency. An experiential education program designed to mirror an end-to-end mission on Mars, called LAPIS, is the case example used to highlight the steps and illustrate the effectiveness of empowerment evaluation in experiential education. This case demonstrates how empowerment evaluation is a natural match for experiential education programs.

scholarly journals Teachers development model to authentic assessment by empowerment evaluation approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 2524-2530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charoenchai Charin ◽  
Phuseeorn Songsak ◽  
Phengsawat Waro
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach

scholarly journals (De-)Constructing Attacker Categorisations: A Typology Iteration for the Case of Digital Banking

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 783-804
Author(s):  
Caroline Moeckel
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Light Touch ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Life Data ◽  
Visualisation Tool ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Real Life Data

In this extended and updated paper, the experimental construction of a new attacker typology grounded in real-life data is proposed, using grounded theory analysis and over 300 publicly available documents containing details of digital banking related cybercrime and involved attackers. Seven attacker profiles forming the typology specific to the case of digital banking are presented. An initial light-touch evaluation approach based on peer review feedback and basic heuristics is suggested. A short excursus on circumplex models is added to address this visualisation tool used across past categorisation efforts.

Toward a Regional Gerontological Agenda: The Use of Empowerment Evaluation

2020 ◽  
pp. 073346482096647
Author(s):  
Abby J. Schwartz ◽  
Kyle L. Bower ◽  
Graham D. Rowles ◽  
Karen M. Appert ◽  
Lee Ann S. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Stakeholder Perceptions ◽  
The South ◽  
Regional Organization ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Gerontological Society ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Meeting Program

This article describes the application of an empowerment evaluation approach to nurturing the growth and priority setting of a regional organization. A model is provided of the processes whereby the Southern Gerontological Society (SGS) identified research and service priorities by conducting a survey of stakeholder perceptions of regional needs. The survey goal was to identify important issues faced by older adults in the South as a prelude to refining SGS research and service priorities and developing its contemporary regional gerontological agenda. We trace how the survey findings were translated into actions including shaping the annual meeting program, creating new standing committees, and developing service activities. Underlying the process of developing and refining this agenda are a set of key principles that have come to characterize the operation of SGS. These principles are discussed and provide a model for comparable organizations seeking to develop agendas consistent with their mission and identity.

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