Despite 11,000 years of honing evaluation skills in order to thrive in some of the harshest climatic conditions on the planet, there are few Alaska Native program evaluators and until a recent exchange with New Zealand Maori, there was no collective vision for building Alaska Native capacity in program evaluation. This article tells the story of a recent project that represents the first concerted attempt at building the evaluation capacity of Alaska Natives. It is written by Alaska Native and Maori people involved in that project. This evaluation capacity building story is shared with the international evaluation community in the belief that others can learn from our experiences in attempting evaluation training across cultures and across the globe. The authors also hope that it will encourage other indigenous evaluators to share their stories so that a wider audience can benefit from the considerable knowledge about evaluation held by indigenous peoples.
The authors of this paper are employed at Ealing College of Higher Education, London, England, in the School of Business and Management. Pat Armstrong is the Head of Division of Applied Behavioural Science, Alison Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, currently on secondment to the CNAA, and James Johnson is a Research Assistant. The paper is based on empirical research, undertaken in the London Borough of Ealing, and was designed to investigate perceptions held by small retail proprietors of business success. The results to date indicate that these perceptions more often revolve around personal satisfaction and security that business growth and development.
School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. She is the school's chief fiscal officer, and teaches courses in ethical decision-making. Pat is also co-director of the school's international, interdisciplinary teaching and research initiative, GO GREEN, which emphasizes sustainable development. With H. Oner Yurtseven, she conducts annual ASEE-sponsored salary surveys on engineering and technology faculty compensation. Pat has been active in numerous leadership positions within ASEE.
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