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Navigating the Field While Black: A Critical Race Analysis of Peer and Elder Advice to and From Black Evaluators 当黑人在这个领域中航行:对同行和长辈对黑人评估者的建议的批判性种族分析
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231184902
Cherie M. Avent, Aileen Reid, J. R. Moller, Adeyemo Adetogun, Brianna Hooks Singletary, A. Boyce
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Translating Evaluation Policy Into Practice in Government Organizations. 将评估政策转化为政府组织的实践。
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1177/10982140221079837
Isabelle Bourgeois, Stéphanie Maltais
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引用次数: 1
Theory-based Evaluation of Lesson Study Professional Development: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned 基于理论的课程学习专业发展评估：挑战、机遇和经验教训
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231184899
D. Follmer, Randall E. Groth, Jennifer A. Bergner, Starlin Weaver
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引用次数: 0
Promoting Children's Rights and Protections in Program Evaluation 在项目评估中促进儿童权利和保护
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/10982140221134621
Duncan J. Mayer, V. Groza
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引用次数: 0
Book Review: Evaluating and Valuing in Social Research by Thomas A. Schwandt and Emily F. Gates 托马斯·施万特和艾米丽·盖茨的书评：《社会研究中的评价与价值》
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231186518
Melvin E. Hall
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引用次数: 0
Evaluation Paradoxes: Responding to Tensions Between Stability and Change in Social Investment Evaluation 评价悖论:应对社会投资评价中稳定与变化之间的紧张关系
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231185741
Kettil Nordesjö
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引用次数: 0
From the Co-Editors: Policy, Politics, Principles, and Participation: Influences on Program Planning, Implementation, and Outcomes Achieved 来自联合编辑：政策、政治、原则和参与：对项目规划、实施和成果的影响
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231184312
J. Hall, Laura R. Peck
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引用次数: 0
Special Section Editors’ Note: A Focus on the Evaluation Profession 专版编者按：聚焦评估职业
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231184313
Susan Tucker, Laura R. Peck, J. Hall
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Gatekeeping's Influence on Equitable Evaluation Practice 把关对公平评价实践的影响
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231154503
Travis R. Moore, L. C. Valmadrid, Robyn Baragwanath, Nathaniel Haack, L. Bakken
{"title":"Gatekeeping's Influence on Equitable Evaluation Practice","authors":"Travis R. Moore, L. C. Valmadrid, Robyn Baragwanath, Nathaniel Haack, L. Bakken","doi":"10.1177/10982140231154503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140231154503","url":null,"abstract":"The ethical guidelines for the American Evaluation Association and the principles of community-based participatory evaluation both state the importance of equitable stakeholder involvement. Regardless of the evaluation approach, however, evaluators are often confronted with gatekeepers, or those who control the access to stakeholders, information, or resources. Gatekeepers limit both the participation of key community members and, therefore, the exchange of relevant information related to the evaluation—a process called gatekeeping. Little research attention has been placed on studying gatekeeping, resulting in a dearth of knowledge about the influence of gatekeeping on stakeholder-engaged evaluations and social-structural dynamics that potentially perpetuate gatekeeping practices. In this article, we propose a gatekeeping influence theory grounded in the findings from 14 interviews. With a constructed theory of gatekeeping, we document the emergent social-structural and relational dynamics involved in stakeholder-engaged evaluation, with a focus on evaluations that include community partners and members.","PeriodicalId":51449,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Evaluation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45195614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Do Social Programs Help Some Beneficiaries More Than Others? Evaluating the Potential for Comparison Group Designs to Yield Low-Bias Estimates of Differential Impact 社会项目对某些受益人的帮助比其他人大吗？评估比较组设计产生差异影响低偏差估计的潜力
IF 1.7 3区 社会学
American Journal of Evaluation Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/10982140231160561
Andrew P. Jaciw
{"title":"Do Social Programs Help Some Beneficiaries More Than Others? Evaluating the Potential for Comparison Group Designs to Yield Low-Bias Estimates of Differential Impact","authors":"Andrew P. Jaciw","doi":"10.1177/10982140231160561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140231160561","url":null,"abstract":"In the current socio-political climate, there is an extra urgency to evaluate whether program impacts are distributed fairly across important student groups in education. Both experimental and quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) can contribute to answering this question. This work demonstrates that QEDs that compare outcomes across higher-level implementation units, such as schools, are especially well-suited to contributing evidence on differential program effects across student groups. Such designs, by differencing away site-level (macro) effects, on average produce estimates of the differential impact that are closer to experimental benchmark results than are estimates of average impact based on the same design. This work argues for the importance of routine evaluation of moderated impacts, describes the differencing procedure, and empirically tests the methodology with seven impact evaluations in education. The hope is to encourage broader use of this design type to more-efficiently develop the evidence base for differential program effects, particularly for underserved students.","PeriodicalId":51449,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Evaluation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42773121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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