Relevance of Culture in Evaluation Institute: Implementing and Empirically Investigating Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Underperforming Schools

建议编号：0438482PI：斯塔福德胡德机构：亚利桑那州立大学标题：评估机构的文化相关性：在表现不佳的学校实施文化响应性评估并进行实证调查。该项目的目的是在评价研究所(项目0335699)正在进行的文化相关性活动的基础上，推动制定文化相关性评估战略，如《国家科学基金会2002年项目评估用户友好手册》首席调查员合著节中提出的那些战略。通过在学校环境中利用这些战略并对其进行实证调查，该项目旨在开发一种可持续变革的模式，以改进对文化背景是突出特点的方案的评价，同时扩大代表不足群体的参与。该项目的目标是：1)制定一个框架，使寻求对文化背景作出反应的评估者具有可操作性，并为其提供指导；2)通过增加准备在文化背景是重要特征的环境中工作的评估者的人数，在教育界内培养能力；3)为表现不佳的学校建立和完善可持续变革和改进评估的模式。

ABSTRACTProposal number: 0438482PI: Stafford HoodInstitution: Arizona State UniversityTitle: Relevance of Culture in Evaluation Institute: Implementing and Empirically Investigating Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Underperforming Schools. This project is intended to build upon ongoing activities in the Relevance of Culture in Evaluation Institute (Project 0335699) to advance the development of culturally relevant evaluation strategies such as those proposed in the Principal Investigator's co-authored section of the NSF 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation. By utilizing these strategies in school settings and empirically investigating them the project is intended to develop a model for sustainable change in improving evaluations of programs where cultural context is a salient feature and at the same time broaden the participation of underrepresented groups. The project objectives are: 1) to develop a framework that will operationalize and provide guidance to evaluators seeking to be responsive to cultural context, 2) build capacity within the educational community by increasing the number of evaluators prepared to work in settings where cultural context is an important feature, and 3) build and refine a model of sustainable change and improvement of evaluation for schools that are underperforming.