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A university and community partnership that built capacity through program evaluation 通过项目评估建立能力的大学和社区伙伴关系

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102669

Candace Lind , Beth Archer-Kuhn , Natalie Beltrano , Lisa Garrisen , Janet Hettler , Sandra M. Reilly , Leianne Vye-Rogers , Justine Reyes

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Evaluating the impact of the Programa Saúde na Escola on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Brazil: A quasi-experimental analysis using propensity score matching 评估Saúde na Escola方案对巴西青少年性健康和生殖健康的影响：使用倾向得分匹配的准实验分析

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102661

Jessica Antunes de Oliveira , Marco Tulio Aniceto França

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Index-based assessment of stakeholder perception for participatory sustainable soil and water resources in a mountainous landscape 基于指数的山地景观参与式可持续水土资源利益相关者感知评估

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102643

Fatemeh Kateb, Abazar Esmali Ouri , Raoof Mostafazadeh, Meraj Sharari, Zeinab Hazbavi

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Challenges to the implementation of guidance and counseling program in secondary schools of Tigray regional state, Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚提格雷州中学实施指导与咨询方案的挑战

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102637

Alemat Abay, Kibrom Adane, Teklay G.her

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Does transitional housing matter? The contributions of a housing program on homeless youth’s outcomes 过渡性住房重要吗？住房项目对无家可归青年的影响

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102635

Pushpanjali Dashora , Shiva Kiaras

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Can programme budget preparation mechanisms improve the allocation of public resources? Examples from ministries in Cameroon 方案预算编制机制能否改善公共资源的分配？喀麦隆各部委的例子

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102668

Onana Simon Pierre, Ousmane Diaby

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Leadership for the common good. Design and validation of a measurement tool for university students (COMPLIZ). 领导共同利益。大学生测量工具（COMPLIZ）的设计与验证。

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102650

María Fernanda Gambarini , Jose Manuel García Ramos

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Sustainable environmental education: Some machine learning algorithms in the classification of sustainable environmental attitudes 可持续环境教育：可持续环境态度分类中的一些机器学习算法

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102652

Semra Benzer , Farid Hassanbaki Garabaghi , Recep Benzer , Hicret Çimen Güni

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Assessing community values of civil society organizations led coastal ecotourism conservation projects on climate change context 评估气候变化背景下民间组织主导的沿海生态旅游保护项目的社区价值

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102624

Ravi Sharma , Vishal Pradhan

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Approaches to incorporating equity into program evaluation: A scoping review 将公平纳入计划评估的方法：范围审查

IF 1.5 4区社会学

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102648

Oeishi Faruquzzaman , Samson Tse , Ruth Cameron , Kenny Chee , Maritt Kirst , Ciann Wilson

{"title":"Approaches to incorporating equity into program evaluation: A scoping review","authors":"Oeishi Faruquzzaman , Samson Tse , Ruth Cameron , Kenny Chee , Maritt Kirst , Ciann Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recognizing the ways in which traditional program evaluation approaches can perpetuate and reinforce systemic oppression, the field of program evaluation is at a crossroads. There is a newfound focus on promoting and advancing social justice and equity in the field of program evaluation. There are various fields of evaluation that have a focus on equity, with some types of evaluation such as decolonial and culturally responsive evaluation having been well established and new approaches such as equitable evaluation. The present scoping review sought to create a snapshot of existing equitable evaluation and other evaluation approach literature that seek to advance equity in process and/or outcome. A scoping review of English academic and grey literature (<em>N</em> = 42) of equity-focused or promoting evaluation frameworks such as equitable evaluation, culturally responsive, anti-racist, decolonial, and Indigenous evaluation was conducted. After reviewing the literature, we identified seven common themes for advancing equity in evaluation: a consideration of context, engaging with program partners, adapting traditional evaluation instruments and methods, utilizing a strengths-based focus, engaging in self-reflection and self-learning, shifting/addressing power imbalances, and the use of participatory methods. Identified themes can act as guiding principles, with which to advance equity-focused evaluation practices. Implications and future directions in promoting social justice in the field of program evaluation are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48046,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation and Program Planning","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 102648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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