Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability

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FOREWORD - Stewart I. Donaldson PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. History and Overview - David M. Fetterman 2. Empowerment Evaluation: Theories, Principles, Concepts, and Steps - David M. Fetterman PART II: SCOPE AND BREADTH Foundations 3. Mission Fulfillment: How Empowerment Evaluation Enables Funders to Achieve Results - Janice B. Yost 4. Foundation Strategy Drives the Choice of Empowerment Evaluation Principles - Laura C. Leviton International 5. Capacity Building Through Empowerment Evaluation: An Aymara Women Artisans Organization In Puno, Peru - Susana Sastre-Merino, Pablo Mera, Jose Maria Diaz-Puente, Maria Jose Fernandez-Moral 6. Teachers as Evaluators: An Empowerment Evaluation Approach - Janet Clinton, John Hattie United States 7. Hewlett-Packard's $15 Million Digital Village: A Place-based Empowerment Evaluation Initiative - David M. Fetterman 8. Empowerment Evaluation in Action in SAMHSA's Service to Science Initiative: Cultivating Ownership and Enhancing Sustainability - Pamela Imm, Mathew Biewener, Dawn Oparah, Kim Dash PART III: TOOLS 9. Getting To Outcomes: An Empowerment Evaluation Capacity Building Model - Abraham Wandersman 10. No Excuses: Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness - Ivan Haskell, Aidyn L. Iachini 11. Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by 4th and 5th Grade Students - Regina Day Langhout, Jesica Siham Fernandez 12. Building Evaluation Capacity to Engage in Empowerment Evaluation: A Case of Organizational Transformation - Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tina Taylor-Ritzler, Gloria Morales-Curtin 13. An Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Implementing with Quality at Scale: The Quality Implementation Process and Tools - Andrea E. Lamont, Annie Wright, Abraham Wandersman, Debra Hamm 14. Empowerment Evaluation: Evaluation Capacity Building in a 10-Year Tobacco Prevention Initiative - David M. Fetterman, Linda Delaney, Beverley Triana-Tremain, Marian Evans-Lee PART IV: RESEARCH AND REFLECTION 15. Getting To Outcomes (R): Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work - Mathew Chinman, Joie Acosta, Sarah B. Hunter, Patricia Ebener PART V: CONCLUSION 16. Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next Steps Revisited - David M. Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, Shakeh J. Kaftarian