Cultural Competence & Capacity Building By: Nate Hartman, Chris Hunter, Terry Martin, & Chapter 9
Jan 01, 2016
Cultural Competence &
Capacity Building
By: Nate Hartman, Chris Hunter, Terry Martin, & Kristin Williams
Chapter 9
-Multicultural influences shape or are shaped by
our work
-Culture Validity
-Understandthe culture
-Race, ethnicity, gender, religion, social economics
Karen Kirkhart
(1994)
Joint Committee
On StandardsFor Educational
Evaluation
Cultural Competence
-Evaluator Credibility
-Explicit Values
-Cultural Viability
-Formal Agreements
-Justified Conclusions & Decisions
Cultural Viability- Recognizing, monitoring, and balancing cultural & political interests
Evaluator Credibility- Credibility in the context of program & evaluation
Explicit Values- clarification of specific cultural values reinforcing purpose, process, & judgments
Formal Agreements- Consideration of cultural contexts
Justified Conclusions & Decisions- Justified in the culture and context where they have consequences
Why is it important?- Assist evaluator with the issues of concern to the
stakeholders
- Consider multiple perspectives
- Collect valid data, sensitive to the norms, perspectives, and beliefs
- Analyze and interpret data to achieve valid results
- Increase the legitimacy of the evaluation for all stakeholders
- Increase the usefulness and use of the results
- Recognize problems with inequality/ Improve Social equality and democratic values in the way the evaluation was conducted.
-Process use, illustrate the impact
-Evaluators recognized impact changes about themselves
-The evaluative ways of thinking aboutthe employees in the organization
-Learning, influenced the organization
Michael Patton
Evaluation’s role
Effects an Evaluation has on an Organization
•Evaluations, more popular•Accountability•Collect & Report evaluative data
Recognition- evaluation has an impact beyond programs
Evaluate how to make decisions
Impact on Organizations
2 Discussions: Mainstream Evaluation & Build Evaluative Capacity
Evaluation’s Roles:
Teacher makes course
recommendation
The Course Selection Process
Student take course request
form home
Parent reviews, signs, and
returns
Middle school counselor reviews
and sends to high school
What do we mean by mainstreaming evaluation or evaluation capacity building?
Is it desirable?Mainstreaming Evaluation
Sanders (2002):• discussed that it is an integral part of an organization’s daily
operations• part of culture and responsibilities at all levels
Duignan and Wandersman(2003):• need to be adapted to school settings• part of everyday decision-making process• provides opportunity for empowerment
Working definition:• Mainstreaming evaluation is a process that involves people at
all levels on a daily basis to make informed decisions. (RTII)
Evaluation Capacity Building:
Stockdill (2002):• “an action system of guided practices and
processes for bringing about and sustaining a state of affairs in which quality program evaluation and its appropriate uses are ordinary and ongoing practices within and/or between one or more organizations/programs/sites.”
ECB vs. Traditional:• ECC are ongoing a person involves to assure the
environment is “conducive” to evaluation and is being used within the organization.
• Traditional evaluation system usually are a one shot
evaluation of a program or policy.
For and ECB to work:
-history
-culture
-structure
-context of the organization
Purpose of an ECB:
“ to build an organization’s capacity, receptiveness, and use of evaluation” (King, 2002)
Where is ECB being used:
-In American Evaluation Association (2008) reported that over 54%
- organizations are utilizing ECB.
Examples:
-World Bank-American Cancer Society
-U.S. Center for Disease Control
Building Evaluation Capacity
• Create attention to new roles
Build organizational capacity, receptiveness, and use of evaluation
The role of evaluators are quite distinct from evaluation studies
Evaluation Capacity Development Group - www.ecdg.net
Multidisciplinary Model of ECB
Preskill and Boyle (2008)
Future of ECB-Preskill and Boyle