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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.
“No Excuses” : Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness
“No Excuses” : Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness
Young people across the United States experience a number of challenges that influence their ability to attend school, engage in classroom learning, and achieve academic success (Adelman & Taylor, 2002). Significant risk factors for poor academic achievement include poverty, homelessness, unmet mental health needs, bullying and conflictual peer relationships, family discord, and neighborhood violence (Richman, Bowen, & Wooley, 2004). School mental health (SMH) programs and services are essential strategies to address these nonacademic barriers to student learning and to promote students’ healthy development and success in school (Adelman & Taylor, ...
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