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

This Second Edition celebrates 21 years of the practice of empowerment evaluation, a term first coined by David Fetterman during his presidential address for the American Evaluation Association. Since that time, this approach has altered the landscape of evaluation and has spread to a wide range of settings in more than 16 countries. In this new book, an outstanding group of evaluators from academia, government, nonprofits, and foundations assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the landmark 1996 edition. The book includes 10 empowerment evaluation principles, a number of models and tools to help put empowerment evaluation into practice, reflections on the history and future of the approach, and illustrative case studies from a number of different projects in a variety of diverse settings. The Second Edition offers readers the most current insights into the practice of this stakeholder-involvement approach to evaluation.

Author: David Fetterman
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 09/23/2014
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781452299532

About the Author
Dr. David M. Fetterman is president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm, and concurrently the director of the Arkansas Evaluation Center and professor of business at The Charleston University, anthropology at San Jose State University, and education at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Dr. Fetterman continues to serve as an advisor at Stanford University's School of Medicine. He works in the fields of educational evaluation, health care, policy analysis, and educational technology and specializes in ethnography and mixed methods. In over 25 years at Stanford University, Dr. Fetterman served as director of evaluation and head of the Division of Evaluation in the School of Medicine; director of evaluation, career development, and alumni relations in the School of Education; consulting professor of education; and director of the MA Policy Analysis and Evaluation Program. He is the author of Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages (Stanford, 2013), Ethnography: Step-by-Step (SAGE, 2010), and Foundations of Empowerment Evaluation (SAGE, 2000). He is a coauthor or editor of Empowerment Evaluation: Principles in Practice (Guilford, 2005) and Ethnography in Educational Evaluation (SAGE, 1984).

Shakeh J. Kaftarian, PhD, is president and CEO of Kaftarian & Associates, a consulting firm offering empowerment evaluation services to national and international organizations. Her interests include community coalition building, substance abuse prevention programming, and women's health research. She has held positions as a research and evaluation scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Kaftarian has served as senior adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and adjunct research professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and federal evaluation research reports, and also served as guest editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention, Prevention Science, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Journal of Community Psychology. Abraham Wandersman (PhD, Cornell University), is professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches environmental and ecological psychology, community psychology, and program evaluation. His research interests include citizen participation in community development and mental health, program evaluation and accountability, and prevention and health promotion. He is the co-author of a number of health promotion reports for the RAND Corporation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is the author (with B. Kloos, J. Hill, E. Thomas, J. Dalton, and M. Elias) of Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities, 3e (Cengage, 2012).

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