Empowerment Evaluation

David M. Fetterman is the President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international ethnographic and evaluation consultation firm. He works in a wide range of settings, ranging from townships in South Africa to Google in Silicon Valley. Clients and sponsors include: the U.S. Department of Education, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Hewlett Packard Philanthropy, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Arkansas Department of Education. David has also provided consultation services for the: Ministry of Education in Japan, Ministry of Health in Brazil, Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, and Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Māori Development) in New Zealand.He concurrently serves as a member of the faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the University of Charleston. Dr. Fetterman has over 25 years of experience at Stanford University. He was a Consulting Professor of Education in the School of Education and the Director of Evaluation in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Formerly, he served as a Professor and Research Director at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and a Senior Associate and Project Director at RMC Research Corporation. He received his PhD from Stanford University in educational and medical anthropology.David is a past-president of the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education and the American Evaluation Association. He is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. David received the Top Anthropologist of the Year 2019 Award; George and Louise Spindler Award, for outstanding contributions to educational anthropology; and the Ethnographic Evaluation Award. He also received the Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Outstanding Contributions to Evaluation Theory and the Myrdal Award for Cumulative Contributions to Evaluation Practice—the American Evaluation Association’s highest honors.Fetterman has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias and is the author of Ethnography: Step by Step; Excellence and Equality: A Qualitatively Different Perspective on Gifted and Talented Education; and Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice. Dr. Fetterman is the editor of: Ethnography in Educational Evaluation; Educational Evaluation: Ethnography in Theory, Practice, and Politics; Speaking the Language of Power: Communication, Collaboration, and Advocacy (translating ethnography into action); Qualitative Approaches to Evaluation in Education: The Silent Scientific Revolution; Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability; Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice; and Foundations of Empowerment. (Details of the projects are available at http://www.drdavidfetterman.com.). Shakeh Kaftarian 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.   She has served as Senior Advisor at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.  She is the co-editor of the first edition of Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability (SAGE, 1996), and has authored a number of peer-reviewed articles and Federal evaluation research reports.  She has also served as guest editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention; Prevention Science; Evaluation and Program Planning; and Journal of Community Psychology. Abraham Wandersman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina-Columbia.  Dr. Wandersman performs research and program evaluation on citizen participation in community organizations and coalitions and on interagency collaboration.  He is a co-editor of three books on empowerment evaluation, and a co-author of several Getting To Outcomes accountability books (how-to manuals for planning, implementation, and evaluation to achieve results). Abraham collaborated with CDC to develop the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation—the subject of two special issues of a peer-reviewed journal (2008, 2012).  In 1998, he received the Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association. In 2000, he was elected President of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA).   In 2005, he was awarded the Distinguished Theory and Research Contributions Award by SCRA.  In 2008, Getting To Outcomes won the American Evaluation Association’s Outstanding Publication Award.  In 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Injury Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"The book provides depth and detail about the nature, variety, rigors, and credibility of self-evaluation, no small contribution…there is much of value here, strong evidence of an approach that, well-facilitated and comprehensively engaged, can make a substantial difference."

• FOREWORD - Stewart I. DonaldsonPREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPART I: INTRODUCTION1. History and Overview - David M. Fetterman2. Empowerment Evaluation: Theories, Principles, Concepts, and Steps - David M. FettermanPART II: SCOPE AND BREADTHFoundations3. Mission Fulfillment: How Empowerment Evaluation Enables Funders to Achieve Results - Janice B. Yost4. Foundation Strategy Drives the Choice of Empowerment Evaluation Principles - Laura C. LevitonInternational5. Capacity Building Through Empowerment Evaluation: An Aymara Women Artisans Organization In Puno, Peru - Susana Sastre-Merino, Pablo Mera, José Maria Díaz-Puente, María Jose Fernández-Moral6. Teachers as Evaluators: An Empowerment Evaluation Approach - Janet Clinton, John HattieUnited States7. Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Digital Village: A Place-based Empowerment Evaluation Initiative - David M. Fetterman8. Empowerment Evaluation in Action in SAMHSA’s Service to Science Initiative: Cultivating Ownership and Enhancing Sustainability - Pamela Imm, Mathew Biewener, Dawn Oparah, Kim DashPART III: TOOLS9. Getting To Outcomes: An Empowerment Evaluation Capacity Building Model - Abraham Wandersman10. “No Excuses”:  Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness - Ivan Haskell, Aidyn L. Iachini11. Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by 4th and 5th Grade Students - Regina Day Langhout, Jesica Siham Fernandez12. Building Evaluation Capacity to Engage in Empowerment Evaluation: A Case of Organizational Transformation - Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tina Taylor-Ritzler, Gloria Morales-Curtin13. An Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Implementing with Quality at Scale: The Quality Implementation Process and Tools - Andrea E. Lamont, Annie Wright, Abraham Wandersman, Debra Hamm14. Empowerment Evaluation: Evaluation Capacity Building in a 10-Year Tobacco Prevention Initiative - David M. Fetterman, Linda Delaney, Beverley Triana-Tremain, Marian Evans-LeePART IV: RESEARCH AND REFLECTION15. Getting To Outcomes®: Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work - Mathew Chinman, Joie Acosta, Sarah B. Hunter, Patricia EbenerPART V: CONCLUSION16. Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next Steps Revisited - David M. Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, Shakeh J. Kaftarian