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Borrowing Techniques for Gathering Qualitative Data with Culturally Diverse Populations
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| Wendy DuBow,
National Research Center Inc,
wendy@n-r-c.com
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As evaluators become more aware of the varied styles of communication in racially, ethnically and culturally diverse groups, it may be useful to incorporate techniques from other fields, such as social work and public health.
Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a strengths-based model of decision making drawn from Maori culture. In the U.S., FGC has largely been used to make child-welfare decisions involving extended families. Evaluation could benefit from its incorporation of cultural traditions, community identity, elders, and alternative modes of communication.
The Promotora model is a form of health education outreach increasingly used in the Latino community. Promotoras are themselves community members, who have been trained as liaisons with health and human services organizations. Without buy-in from a community, it is difficult to gather authentic data. The Promotora model may be overlaid onto evaluation to aid in recruiting and collecting data from populations of interest.
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Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators: Why It’s Important and Can It be Taught?
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| Krystall Dunaway,
Old Dominion University,
kdunaway@odu.edu
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| Jennifer Morrow,
University of Tennessee,
jamorrow@utk.edu
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| Bryan Porter,
Old Dominion University,
bporter@odu.edu
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Why is cultural competence in evaluation important? The ultimate goal of evaluation is to solve social problems and develop solutions in a timely manner; therefore, an evaluation pervaded by racist, heterosexist, or classist attitudes of the evaluator can lead to irrelevant research questions and methodologies and yield inaccurate results. Thus, cultural competence ought to be one of the central principles of our field. With that in mind, the purposes of this paper are to 1) define cultural competence, 2) convey the belief that an individual cannot be a competent evaluator unless he or she is culturally competent, 3) argue that cultural competence can be taught to evaluators, and 4) describe cultural competence training models used in other disciplines that could be modified for the field of evaluation.
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Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluating an Enrichment Program for Minority Students in Sciences
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| Margaret Mwenda,
University of Iowa,
margaret-mwenda@uiowa.edu
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| Vernita Morgan,
University of Iowa,
vernita-morgan@uiowa.edu
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This paper compares the quality of data collected over a period of three years --2005 to 2007--through surveys, focus groups, and mixed-method techniques respectively. It also discusses the relevance of mixed method inquiry for evaluating minority enrichment programs. This paper highlights the value of using mixed methods for evaluation. The analyses confirm that the concurrent mixed method approach yields richer data.
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