The Evaluation Exchange
Volume I, No. 3/4, Fall 1995
Issue Topic: 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.

Table of Contents

From the Director's Desk
An introduction to the issue by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D.

Theory & Practice

• Participatory Evaluation: Enhancing Evaluation Use and Organizational Learning Capacity
  J. Bradley Cousins of the University of Ottawa and Lorna Earl of the Scarborough Board of Education share lessons learned in testing their utilization-focused participatory evaluation approach.

Promising Practices

• The Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization (RWARM)
  Elaine Replogle from Harvard Family Research Project describes RWARM's participatory action research approach.

Beyond Basic Training

• 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.

Questions & Answers

• 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.

Evaluations to Watch

• 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.

New & Noteworthy
A list of new resources on participatory evaluation.

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