Participatory Evaluation Research as Catalyst for Reform: An Example From an Urban Middle School
Jennifer Pastor and Rosemarie Roberts of the City University of New York describe the outcome of their use of participatory evaluation for their school reform project.
Participatory Evaluation
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, explores participatory evaluation strategies. The issue introduces and examines the key ideas behind participatory approaches through the work of its practitioners and to indicate the wide range of fields where these approaches are being applied and tested.
The Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization (RWARM)
From the Director's Desk
An introduction to the issue on Participatory Evaluation by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.
Participatory Evaluation: Enhancing Evaluation Use and Organizational Learning Capacity
Participatory Evaluators' Roundtable, 1995
Jennifer Schumaker of Heifer Project International reviews the outcomes of a roundtable on participatory evaluation attended by 19 professionals that took place April 1995.
New & Noteworthy
A list of new resources on participatory evaluation.
What Is Participatory Evaluation (PE)? What Are Its Roots?
HFRP posed this question to Carole Upshur and Esterla Barreto-Cortez, researchers at the Mauricio Gastón Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Head Start as a Family Support Program: Renewing a Community Ethic
This report discusses the efforts of six Head Start programs to address the challenges and goals raised in the 1993 report, Creating a 21st Century Head Start. It assesses their progress in several key areas: expanding enrollment, strengthening parent involvement, addressing issues such as homelessness and substance abuse, improving staff training, bridging research and practice, and collaborating with schools and social service agencies, and addressing issues such as homelessness and substance abuse.
Community-Based Family Support in Public Housing
This book examines the history of public housing, women's key leadership roles in those communities, and the experiences of eight family support programs located in public housing developments. In-depth case studies provide lessons on how entities as diverse as public housing authorities, community-based agencies, and research institutions work to empower these often-neglected communities.
Evaluating School-Linked Services
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, focuses on how to evaluate school-linked services.
Evaluating School-Linked Services
Kathleen Shaw and Elaine Replogle of Harvard Family Research Project summarize the working paper by HFRP, Challenges in Evaluating Comprehensive School-Linked Service Initiatives.
Professional Development Opportunities & Resources
A list of resources to support professional development for teachers and school staff.
The Washington Heights Community Schools Project
The Washington Heights Community Schools Project conducts an evaluation to support educational and health outcomes.
From the Director's Desk
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange, Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, focuses on how to evaluate school-linked services.
KERA: Making Evaluation Part of the Way They Do Business
Elaine Replogle from Harvard Family Research Project examines the Kentucky Education Reform Act, which established Family Resource Centers and Youth Service Centers.
Mixed Methods: Practical Possibilities for Evaluation
Lori Rutter from Harvard Family Research Project summarizes Professor Jennifer Greene's presentation on using mixed methods to evaluate human service programs, which she made at HFRP's Evaluation Seminar Series.
New Jersey's School-Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP)
This evaluation report from Academy for Education Development (AED) examined a range of services to children and adolescents at 29 secondary schools and 16 primary schools in the New Jersey's School-Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP).
What is the Evidence of the Effectiveness of School-Linked Services?
HFRP posed this question to Mary Wagner, Ph.D., who is the program manager of educational and human services research at SRI International, and James Davis, Ph.D., who is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Delaware.
New & Noteworthy
A list of new resources on evaluation of school-linked services.
Raising Our Future: Families, Schools, and Communities Joining Together
This book provides one of the most thorough and complete analyses of innovative family support and education programs to date. Seventy-three profiles taken from around the country vividly illustrate the key elements of a successful program, while detailed charts, tables, and cross-referencing indexes give quick and easy access to information.
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The Dr. Seuss Approach to Evaluation
Elaine Replogle, Research Assistant at Harvard Family Research Project, summarizes Michael Patton's talk at the Evaluation Seminar Series, “Sneeches, Zax, and Empty Pants: Processes in Developmental Evaluation.”
New & Noteworthy
An annotated list of organizations and initiatives related to the evaluation themes in this issue.
A Call for Ideas
An introduction to The Evaluation Exchange by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.
Challenges in Evaluating Systems Reform
Kathleen Shaw, Senior Researcher at Harvard Family Research Project, summarizes a new HFRP work in progress, Systems Reform: Challenges for Evaluation Research.