| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Innovations in Youth Empowerment Evaluation |
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Roundtable Presentation 603 to be held in BONHAM A on Friday, Nov 12, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM
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Sponsored by the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Kimberly Kay Lopez, Independent Consultant, kimklopez@hotmail.com
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| Abstract:
This discussion is based on the youth focused Empowerment Evaluation (Fetterman, 2001) of community-based youth prevention programs. The researcher developed an innovative approach by using photography and journal writing within the Empowerment Evaluation methodology. The researcher also modified the scoring scale used in Empowerment Evaluation to a letter grade system. These innovations resonated with the youth and allowed the researcher to not only collect but validate data across several modalities. These innovations have been applied to several youth program evaluations with great success. Youth-focused participatory research is relevant to evaluation research as the expertise of the youth is valued as an equitable partner in research.
Fetterman, D. M. (2001). Foundations of Empowerment Evaluation. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Slipping and Sliding Like a Weasel on the Run: Empowerment Evaluation and the Hawthorne Effect |
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Roundtable Presentation 603 to be held in BONHAM A on Friday, Nov 12, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM
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Sponsored by the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Michael Matteson, University of Wollongong, cenetista3637@hotmail.com
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| Abstract:
In the course of evaluating the empowerment aspect of an Empowerment Evaluation I was faced with the argument that any effect of the evaluation on the evaluation team participants was in fact a Hawthorne or placebo effect. This was seen as meaning that any effect would be the result of the evaluation team's changing their actions to please me as a participant observer and the evaluator, not as a result of process use of the Empowerment Evaluation experience as such. I thought this could be seen as just a part of the Empowerment Evaluation process itself, but there was a problem with gaining post evaluation data on evaluation effects by participant observation after the evaluation was concluded. This roundtable would look at the issues involved and ways of overcoming them, the role of the evaluator in empowerment Evaluation, and the relevance of different interpretations of “empowerment” in Empowerment Evaluation on what is done and what can be regarded as success.
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