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Date(s) - 23/08/2023
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Claremont Evaluation Centre
Date: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Time: 09:00-16:00 PTA
Speaker: Wanda Casillas
Description: Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) is an approach to evaluation that centers culture and context in all steps of an evaluation process. Centering culture in evaluation and applied research has the potential to not only increase the utility and meaningfulness of evaluation findings for stakeholders and communities served, but also to increase the accuracy and validity of those findings.
However, critics of CRE raise concerns regarding how to conduct culturally responsive, equitable evaluation and applied research projects. Whereas few argue that culture is an important factor to attend to in our work, many find the lack of prescription regarding how to carry out equitable work in research daunting. In this course, we will focus on first positioning the argument for how responsive, equitable evaluation and applied research methods are rigorous and valid. Then we will focus on learning methodological tactics that can be added to a researcher’s toolkit. The class will follow a lecture format with intermittent group work and discussion focused on vignettes of culturally-situated applied research projects.