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AI for Evaluators: Opportunities and Risks 评估人员的人工智能:机会和风险

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i45.907

Aaron Wilson Kates, Kurt Wilson

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The Evaluation of Equity-Focused Community Coalitions: A Review of the Empirical Literature 以公平为中心的社区联盟的评估:实证文献综述

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i45.743

Jill Chouinard, Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Kristin Kidd

{"title":"The Evaluation of Equity-Focused Community Coalitions: A Review of the Empirical Literature","authors":"Jill Chouinard, Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Kristin Kidd","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i45.743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i45.743","url":null,"abstract":"Conducting evaluation and research with community coalitions involved in health equity initiatives is inherently complex. In this paper we provide a review and synthesis of the empirical literature on the evaluation of equity-focused community coalitions. We explore issues, challenges, and barriers experienced by evaluators, as well as techniques and approaches that were considered beneficial. Our review identified 11 peer reviewed articles, from which we identified seven overlapping themes: (1) framing equity in the evaluation process, (2) use of multiple theoretical frameworks, (3) use of systems-focused approaches, (4) strategic use of intersectoral partnerships and collaborations, (5) intentional communication and building trusting relationships, (6) challenges dedicating purposeful time to the work, and (7) issues of cultural and contextual clarity and responsiveness. Our findings point to a significant focus on context, history, learning, communication, relationships, and power. The cultural complexity and historical scope of each context, diversity of stakeholders, and enormity of the systemic issues involved, shape and challenge the evaluation and research process in fundamental ways, requiring a creative and kinetic thinking -- a shifting from methodological certainty to an acknowledged uncertainty, where mixing, blending and the innovative use of approaches and theories becomes a way of moving beyond the colonizing past.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Commitment Mural: Let’s Decolonize Evaluation Together 承诺壁画:让我们一起去殖民化评价

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.795

Gunjan Veda, B. Chilisa

{"title":"The Commitment Mural: Let’s Decolonize Evaluation Together","authors":"Gunjan Veda, B. Chilisa","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.795","url":null,"abstract":"In this mural we demonstrate liberation of evaluation from normalized publication structures. The article is a challenge to publication structures, more specifically journals, to open space for diversity of expression of thought. In this mural, practitioners, academics, policymakers, development partners, VOPEs (Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluations), speak to the strategies to decolonize evaluation. The immediate impact of this mural is a demonstrated commitment to decolonize evaluation by more than 50 individuals and entities. Taking up the commitment will be a demonstrable change that came with the mural. The mural also provides an open space for the exchange of ideas, and strategies to decolonize evaluation. Moreover, the contributing voices are preserved in their own voices and their contribution to global knowledge production is acknowledged. This is indeed a departure from the ethics of confidentiality in research where the participants in an evaluation inquiry largely remain anonymous even in the co-creation of knowledge. We believe that when participants in an evaluation inquiry come across their commitments in evaluation journals, they are encouraged to further form coalitions with like minds and hold themselves accountable collectively to liberate evaluation from the remnants of colonialism.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48734200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Steps Toward Evaluation as Decluttering: Learnings from Hawaiian Epistemology 从夏威夷认识论中汲取教训

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.809

April Nakaima, Sanjeev Sridharan

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Decolonizing Evaluation: Truth, Power, and the Global Evaluation Knowledge Base 非殖民化评价：真理、权力与全球评价知识库

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.803

Hur Hassnain

{"title":"Decolonizing Evaluation: Truth, Power, and the Global Evaluation Knowledge Base","authors":"Hur Hassnain","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.803","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluations play a critical role in shaping the way international development interventions are designed and managed. This contributes to the fact that there are intrinsic power dynamics at play during the production of evaluation knowledge. In the wake of growing commitments to deal with the repercussions of a colonial past and a prolonged history of white supremacy, there has been growing recognition of the need to decolonize evaluation theory and practice to help foster equality and ensure that evaluation knowledge is generated, shared, and understood universally. Increased efforts are being made to understand the risks involved if evaluations fail to utilize decolonized evaluation methods and approaches. We are faced with questions such as: How can we decolonize evaluation and disrupt unequal power relations? How can the evaluation process itself be transformative and an opportunity for co-liberation? What practical tools and steps facilitate power sharing? How can evaluation be used to advance decolonization and social justice? \u0000This paper describes the connection between truth and power and how that relates to the evaluation and decolonization debates. It provides potential starting points for decolonizing evaluation practice, including some examples where this has already been tested. To conclude it focuses on the universalisation of evaluation knowledge and the need to ensure that evaluation knowledge is translated and disseminated via inclusive forms of communication to ensure that learning can be better understood and hence translated into action orientated practice from grassroot to government level. \u0000The aim of this paper is to advance the discussion on decolonizing evaluation practice and provide some potential ways forward in terms of transforming evaluation theory and practice. \u0000Keywords \u0000Decolonizing evaluation, development, results, learning, accountability","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42782591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ubuntu and Afrofeminism for Decolonizing Evaluation Ubuntu与非殖民化评估的Afrofemism

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.793

Fatimata Kane, T. Archibald

{"title":"Ubuntu and Afrofeminism for Decolonizing Evaluation","authors":"Fatimata Kane, T. Archibald","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.793","url":null,"abstract":"Background: African evaluation has been at the forefront of innovating the praxis of decolonizing evaluation, especially through ‘Made in Africa Evaluation’ (MAE) and related efforts. Still, there is a wealth of additional African epistemologies and philosophical paradigms which either have not been adequately discussed in the literature, or have not yet made their way into the discourse and practice of MAE. \u0000Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to propose a theoretical framework that can be used to further inform indigenous and decolonizing evaluation approaches in African contexts and beyond. Specifically, we address the often-cited notion of ubuntu, informed by African philosophical literature beyond the field of evaluation, and we propose Sylvia Tamale’s decolonizing and Afro-feminist lens as a complementary philosophical framing with great potential applications in indigenous and decolonizing evaluation in African contexts and beyond. \u0000Setting: Not applicable. \u0000Intervention: Not applicable. \u0000Research Design: This conceptual study draws on philosophical literature from African philosophy and political science to weave together notions of ubuntu with decolonizing Afro-Feminism. \u0000Data Collection and Analysis: Not applicable. \u0000Findings: We propose that a decolonizing, indigenous evaluation approach rooted in Ubuntu and Afro-Feminism would: question categorial, dichotomous, hierarchical logics (e.g., methodological hierarchical hegemonies); recognize masculinist, imperialist, modernist ideals inscribed in institutions (e.g., via government rationality, therefore also via evaluation); foreground intersectionality; and make room for “the moral economy” and other deeply communitarian framings.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41976732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deconstructing the Imperial Episteme: Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Program Evaluation 解构帝国意识：课程评估中的知识生产去殖民化

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.781

Satlaj Dighe, Cynthia Matthias

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Paradigm-Based Evaluation for Eco-Just Systems Transformation 基于范式的生态公正系统转型评价

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.799

Beverly Parsons, Katherine Winters

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Beyond Ubuntu: Nnoboa and Sankofa as Decolonizing and Indigenous Evaluation Epistemic Foundations from Ghana 超越Ubuntu:加纳的Nnoboa和Sankofa作为非殖民化和土著评价的认知基础

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.789

Douglas Asante, T. Archibald

{"title":"Beyond Ubuntu: Nnoboa and Sankofa as Decolonizing and Indigenous Evaluation Epistemic Foundations from Ghana","authors":"Douglas Asante, T. Archibald","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.789","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Evaluation is an increasingly vital component of community and economic development projects in Africa. Yet questions remain about how relevant most evaluation approaches for the African evaluation context. Within the ‘Made in Africa’ (MAE) approach, ubuntu is frequently cited as an African philosophical concept with salience to MAE. There is a need to further expand and explicate other African philosophies that can serve as epistemological guideposts for African evaluation—and other decolonizing, indigenous evaluation approaches more broadly. \u0000Purpose: Drawing on Ghanaian epistemologies and frameworks, the purpose of this paper is to propose the Nnoboa system of communal collaboration in farming and industry, as well as the notion of Sankofa as a traditional philosophical concept that irrupts and challenges hegemonic Eurocentric notions of the linearity of time, to yield a Ghanaian indigenous knowledge of evaluation. \u0000Setting: Not applicable. \u0000Intervention: Not applicable. \u0000Research Design: This conceptual study draws on literature on culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), MAE, and (from beyond the field of evaluation), descriptions of Nnoboa and Sankofa to propose a conceptual synthesis applicable to decolonizing, indigenous evaluation. \u0000Data Collection and Analysis: Not applicable. \u0000Findings: We propose that Nnoboa and Sankofa represent an addition to the decolonizing and indigenous evaluation knowledge base, building on and going beyond the reliance of CRE and MAE in ubuntu. We propose this Ghanaian approach has potential applications across MAE and CRE more broadly.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41951952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Decolonizing Evaluation of Indigenous Guidance and Counseling Approaches: A Review of Selected Evaluated Programs 土著指导和咨询方法的非殖民化评估：对选定评估项目的回顾

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.779

Hildah L. Mokgolodi

{"title":"Decolonizing Evaluation of Indigenous Guidance and Counseling Approaches: A Review of Selected Evaluated Programs","authors":"Hildah L. Mokgolodi","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.779","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous guidance and counselling approaches in Africa have been discussed in different counselling forums and platforms. While there are several, including Ubuntu philosophies from which indigenous counselling therapies used in clinical work are developed (Chigangaidze, 2021; van Dyk & Matoane, 2010), the researcher experiences these therapies as being pushed to align with the colonial counselling therapies. In this research article, the researcher makes an analysis of five articles on evaluations of indigenous guidance and or counselling therapies. Although most programmes developed for indigenous people may follow curricula and culturally suitable activities (Ridani, Shand, Christensen, Mckay, Tighe, Burns, & Hunter, 2015), rather than to appreciate the metaphysical and cognitions, connectedness and relatedness of Africanism, evaluations seem to be linear from the literature reviewed (Poirier, 2015; Craig,1979), pointing to the grip colonialism still has on evaluation of counselling therapies. This understanding has led one to wonder if evaluation of African indigenous counselling procedures has been decolonized or continue to follow colonial methods of evaluation. The author proposes in this article, the use of African-Relational models of evaluation, in assessing indigenous counselling programmes, where African researchers can make conclusions that resonate with African contexts (Chilisa, Major, Gaotlhobogwe, & Mokgolodi, 2016).","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49595117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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