Voices from the field: Evaluation as part of a learning culture

Hoole, Emily R.; Patterson, Tracy

doi:10.1002/ev.270

Cited by 41 publications

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“…Her reflections indicate a sense of ownership and the value of evaluation to practice (Hoole & Patterson, 2008;Taut, 2007). She also indicated the value of the evaluation with the following comments that were made in a public forum that was presented a few months following the course:…”

Section: Evidence Of Evaluation Capacity Building and Course Impactsmentioning

confidence: 94%

A Course Model for Building Evaluation Capacity Through a University–Community Partnership

Bakken

Nunez

Couture³

2014

American Journal of Evaluation

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Program evaluation is recognized as an essential skill set for practitioners in service-related fields, such as education, nonprofit management, social work, and public health. Recently, the need for a public workforce trained in evaluation has increased and is driven primarily by our nation's emphasis on accountability during a time when financial resources are limited. However, many of these professionals lack the necessary skills to conduct evaluations of their programs and often rely on a much smaller number of evaluation consultants to perform this task. How then can we educate students and professionals in ways that build evaluation capacity among service organizations and meet these growing needs? A novel course design that integrates principles of adult learning, participatory evaluation approaches, and experiential forms of learning to build evaluation capacity among students and a nonprofit organization is presented. Evidence is provided to demonstrate student learning and the impact of the course on the nonprofit service organization's evaluation capacity.Program evaluation is recognized as an essential skillset for practitioners in service-related fields, such as education, nonprofit management, social work, and public health (Davis, 2006). Government agencies and foundations that typically fund organizations in these fields are increasingly requesting that they demonstrate their impacts on communities through evidence-based practices. Therefore, a great need exists to educate competent evaluators and service providers (e.g., social workers or public health educators) not only within academic settings, but within organizations that serve our communities. By training individual practitioners in service fields, sustainable quality

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Section: Evidence Of Evaluation Capacity Building and Course Impactsmentioning

confidence: 94%

A Course Model for Building Evaluation Capacity Through a University–Community Partnership

Bakken

Nunez

Couture³

2014

American Journal of Evaluation

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“…Working with principles of CBPR, the learning team supported internal evaluation capacity building among the HNCF staff to ensure that new directions for the program and evaluation methods were grounded in mutual decision-making (Hoole & Patterson, 2008;Israel, Eng, Schulz, & Parker, 2012;Minkler & Wallerstein, 2008).…”

Section: Methods: Hncf Participatory Evaluation Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Native Community Fellowship: An Indigenous Leadership Program to Enhance Community Wellness

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Jones

Handal³

et al. 2016

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The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship (HNCF) is a grassroots evidence-based mentorship and leadership program that develops the skills and community-building capacities of leaders and community teams to improve health status through several intermediate social and cultural mechanisms: (a) strengthening social participation (also known as social capital or cohesion); (b) strengthening cultural connectedness and revitalization of cultural identity; and (c) advocating for health-enhancing policies, practices, and programs that strengthen systems of prevention and care, as well as address the structural social determinants of health. This leadership program uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and participatory evaluation to investigate how the work of local American Indian and Alaska Native leaders (fellows) and their community coalitions contributes to individual, family, and community level health outcomes.

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“…While not entirely new, many participants had not worked previously with logic models. None had used logic models as an organizing framework (across a portfolio) to understand the necessary alignment, integration, and potential synergy of collective efforts (Hoole & Patterson, 2008; Garcia-Iriarte, Suarez-Balcazar, Taylor-Ritzler, & Luna, 2011).…”

Section: Anti-hunger Portfolio Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%