1. A Window into the Heart and Soul of Empowerment Evaluation:
Looking through the Lens of Empowerment Evaluation Principles
David M. Fetterman
2. The Principles of Empowerment Evaluation
Abraham Wandersman, Jessica Snell-Johns, Barry E. Lentz, David M.
Fetterman, Dana C. Keener, Melanie Livet, Pamela S. Imm, and Paul
Flaspohler
3. Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice: Assessing Levels
of Commitment
David M. Fetterman
4. Lessons That Influenced the Current Conceptualization of
Empowerment Evaluation: Reflections from Two Evaluation
Projects
Dana C. Keener, Jessica Snell-Johns, Melanie Livet, and Abraham
Wandersman
5. Empowerment Evaluation: From the Digital Divide to Academic
Distress
David M. Fetterman
6. Organizational Functioning: Facilitating Effective Interventions
and Increasing the Odds of Programming Success
Melanie Livet and Abraham Wandersman
7. Empowerment Evaluation and Organizational Learning: A Case Study
of a Community Coalition Designed to Prevent Child Abuse and
Neglect
Barry E. Lentz , Pamela S. Imm, Janice B. Yost, Noreen P. Johnson,
Christine Barron, Margie Simone Lindberg, and Joanne Treistman
8. Will the Real Empowerment Evaluation Please Stand Up?: A
Critical Friend Perspective
J. Bradley Cousins
9. Conclusion: Conceptualizing Empowerment in Terms of Sequential
Time and Social Space David M. Fetterman
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Contributors
David M. Fetterman, PhD, is president and CEO of Fetterman and
Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm, and the
founder of empowerment evaluation. Dr. Fetterman has worked in more
than 17 countries--in South African townships and Native American
reservations, as well as in Silicon Valley tech firms, including
Google and Hewlett-Packard--and has 25 years of experience at
Stanford University, serving as a School of Education faculty
member, the School of Medicine director of evaluation, and a senior
member of the University administration. He currently serves as a
faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Claremont
Graduate University. Dr. Fetterman is past president of the
American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Council on
Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA). He is a recipient of honors including the Paul
F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award and the Alva and Gunnar
Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award from the AEA; the President’s
Award from the AAA; the Distinguished Scholar Award from the
Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group of the American
Educational Research Association; and the Award for Excellence in
Research from the Mensa Foundation. He is the author or editor of
numerous books.
Abraham Wandersman is Professor of Psychology at the University of
South Carolina/n-/Columbia and was interim Co-Director of the
Institute for Families in Society at the University of South
Carolina. Dr. Wandersman performs research and program evaluation
on citizen participation in community organizations and coalitions
and on interagency collaboration. He is currently co-principal
investigator on a participatory research study of an empowerment
evaluation system, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), and is working on a project for the program
implementation and dissemination branch of the CDC center for
injury prevention to facilitate a process and develop a framework
on "how to bring what has been shown to work in child maltreatment
prevention and youth violence prevention into more widespread
practice." Dr. Wandersman is a coeditor of Empowerment Evaluation:
Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability, and has
authored or edited many other books and articles. In 1998, he
received the Myrdal Award for Cumulative Contributions to
Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association. In
2000, he was elected President of Division 27 of the American
Psychological Association (Community Psychology): The Society for
Community Research and Action.
This is an emancipating 21st-century book that provides an exciting
venue for assessing outcomes of service learning. Its
evidence-based conceptual model defines the role of the evaluator
in concert with community enhancement and program achievement. This
book is ideal for educating health care professionals and students
engaged in service learning, as well as community stakeholders. It
has great potential as a text for undergraduate and graduate
students. I would consider this book for both professional and
course use.--May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Cellar Professor
of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western
Reserve University
Empowerment evaluation signals the end of the days when evaluation
was done in isolation of staff members and program participants.
The 'new age' of evaluation enables groups to achieve programmatic
goals by putting the power in the hands of those individuals who
know their programs and have a stake in seeing the programs
succeed. Fetterman and Wandersman give us the principles and the
tools to build stronger communities through empowerment evaluation
and to develop systems that incorporate evidence-based strategies.
This text is easy to use and takes the reader from an overview of
classic evaluation methods to the heart of empowerment for success.
Thus, graduate students, novice evaluators, and experienced
professionals can easily grasp the message and understand the
process provided.--Shirley S. Travis, PhD, APRN, FAAN, Dean,
College of Nursing and Health Science, George Mason University
Fetterman and Wandersman have made a wonderful contribution to
evaluation theory and literature with this book. It's no accident
that the 'in practice' part of the title is printed in red--that is
the focus of this work. Beginning where the earlier text
Empowerment Evaluation left off, this volume clarifies the 10
principles of empowerment evaluation and applies them to real-world
settings in detailed case studies. The editors and contributors
have successfully revealed the 'heart and soul' of empowerment
evaluation and enthusiastically offer it as a method that can be
learned and mastered by any evaluation professional or student who
is willing to try.--Frances D. Butterfoss, PhD, Center for
Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School
The authors' framework is clearly laid out, well illustrated, and
inspiring, and the results are compelling. I've made this book
required reading for myself and my staff as we work with schools
around the state on a five-year program designed to support
schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL).--Mary Utne O'Brien,
PhD, Executive Director, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
Emotional Learning (CASEL), and Research Professor, Departments of
Education and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
This updating of the important concept of empowerment evaluation is
ideal for those who teach and carry out human service evaluations.
The editors and many of the contributing authors are pioneers in
the field, and bring the ideas up to date with accessible examples
that will help newcomers to the field understand and use this
valuable and humanistic approach to program evaluation. In the
classroom, this book will serve as a readily adaptable and
applicable text.--Leon Ginsberg, Dean, College of Social Work,
University of South Carolina
Since its introduction by David Fetterman in 1994, empowerment
evaluation has spread like wildfire across the globe. From
disadvantaged schools and communities to NASA and to corporate
offices in South Africa, the 10 principles of empowerment
evaluation are being embraced and applied to foster self-evaluation
and self-determination. What is it about empowerment evaluation
that appeals so much to evaluation clients and stakeholders from
all walks of life? The answer lies in this new volume, the most
comprehensive, readable, and up-to-date treatment of this
evaluation approach. I highly recommend this text to practicing
evaluators, evaluation scholars, and instructors and students
interested in learning about new evaluation theories for improving
practice and learning to conduct effective empowerment
evaluations.--Stewart I. Donaldson, Dean, School of Behavioral and
Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University
This work deepens our understanding of empowerment evaluation by
providing a clear set of principles together with well-constructed
case examples that distinguish EE from other forms of assessment.
This book is essential reading for all evaluators, especially those
interested in evaluation approaches that complement and reinforce
community-based, participatory practices.--Robert M. Goodman,
Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral and Community Health
Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of
Pittsburgh
This book takes the authors' previous work to the next level. It
provides an excellent, tangible grounding for people new to
empowerment evaluation, as well as helping experienced evaluators
to reflect on and improve their current practices. Instead of
focusing on feeling good, this book provides examples and tools for
doing good through the empowerment evaluation process.--David M.
Chavis, Association for the Study and Development of Community,
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Making change in the world is a complex undertaking, particularly
when the aim is to change systems and communities. Such efforts
deserve and need an evaluation process that can simultaneously and
interactively help change agents plan, guide, and learn from the
change process. Many of us have been looking for this book, with
its compelling theory, its understandable and teachable process,
its affirmation of participants’ knowledge and sensibilities, and
its practical examples. This book is an essential resource for all
who are planning and executing efforts to improve programs,
systems, and communities.--Peter L. Benson, President, Search
Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
This volume not only presents the principles of empowerment
evaluation, but also provides concrete examples of their efficacy
in achieving outstanding outcomes. The uniqueness of this book is
how empowerment and evaluation are applied as interdependent
elements in the evaluation process. Numerous cases clearly
demonstrate that there can be no successful evaluation of a
program/organization without empowerment of all the stakeholders
from the very outset in its planning and implementation, and there
can be no empowerment without ongoing, inclusive relationships of
mutual accountability. This is a superb presentation of the
principles and practices of empowerment evaluation as a flexible
process useful in most program improvement/enhancement
efforts.--Mary Kay Kohles-Baker, Senior Research Nurse, Emory
University School of Nursing; Executive Director, Atlanta Regional
Health Forum
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