Xinru Yan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4411585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinru Yan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinru |
| FAMILY NAME | Yan |
| SIGNATURE | YAN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7281-249X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring Positionality and Intersectionality in Practice: Culturally Responsive Evaluation Among Emerging Evaluators at EvaLab
This paper explores how emerging evaluators at EvaLab, an interdisciplinary evaluation hub at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, engage with positionality and intersectionality in culturally responsive evaluation (CRE). Drawing from our diverse identities as international and diasporic scholars, we examine three analytic dimensions of positionality in practice. Through reflexive narratives and collective analysis, we argue that position…
Producing Competent Evaluators: A Self-Study of a Graduate Evaluation Program
Preparing evaluators requires more than technical training. It requires cultivating the judgment to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and equity concerns. This study examines how evaluator competencies are developed through a collaborative, reflective self-study of a graduate evaluation program at a Minority Serving Institution in the southeastern United States. Twenty-two students and alumni participated in interviews exploring how evaluator com…
Toward Racial Equity: Navigating Diverse Conceptualizations and Perspectives in Social Justice-Oriented Evaluation Practice
The effects of race can manifest in various ways in evaluation contexts, making it critical for evaluators to unpack how race and racism are “complex and destructive forces” for racially minoritized and Indigenous communities. The clarion calls by evaluators on the need for greater attention to issues of race and racism in evaluation underscore the profound urgency to investigate the topic now, given that evaluation can be an important driver in …
It Has to Be the Common Thread: Weaving Attention to Racial Equity and Justice Across Lines of Inquiry and Evaluative Criteria
Evaluators must attend to the destructive forces of racialization and racism to contribute to social transformation. Thus, evaluators are called to center culture, context, equity, and social justice during each step of the evaluation process. Here, we focus on the step(s) in which evaluators define program quality and specify evaluative lines of inquiry. We interviewed 29 social justice-oriented evaluators to examine lines of inquiry for program…
It Has to Be the Common Thread: Weaving Attention to Racial Equity and Justice Across Lines of Inquiry and Evaluative Criteria
Evaluators must attend to the destructive forces of racialization and racism to contribute to social transformation. Thus, evaluators are called to center culture, context, equity, and social justice during each step of the evaluation process. Here, we focus on the step(s) in which evaluators define program quality and specify evaluative lines of inquiry. We interviewed 29 social justice-oriented evaluators to examine lines of inquiry for program…
It Has to Be the Common Thread: Weaving Attention to Racial Equity and Justice Across Lines of Inquiry and Evaluative Criteria
Evaluators must attend to the destructive forces of racialization and racism to contribute to social transformation. Thus, evaluators are called to center culture, context, equity, and social justice during each step of the evaluation process. Here, we focus on the step(s) in which evaluators define program quality and specify evaluative lines of inquiry. We interviewed 29 social justice-oriented evaluators to examine lines of inquiry for program…
Toward Racial Equity: Navigating Diverse Conceptualizations and Perspectives in Social Justice-Oriented Evaluation Practice
The effects of race can manifest in various ways in evaluation contexts, making it critical for evaluators to unpack how race and racism are “complex and destructive forces” for racially minoritized and Indigenous communities. The clarion calls by evaluators on the need for greater attention to issues of race and racism in evaluation underscore the profound urgency to investigate the topic now, given that evaluation can be an important driver in …
Exploring Positionality and Intersectionality in Practice: Culturally Responsive Evaluation Among Emerging Evaluators at EvaLab
This paper explores how emerging evaluators at EvaLab, an interdisciplinary evaluation hub at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, engage with positionality and intersectionality in culturally responsive evaluation (CRE). Drawing from our diverse identities as international and diasporic scholars, we examine three analytic dimensions of positionality in practice. Through reflexive narratives and collective analysis, we argue that position…
Producing Competent Evaluators: A Self-Study of a Graduate Evaluation Program
Preparing evaluators requires more than technical training. It requires cultivating the judgment to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and equity concerns. This study examines how evaluator competencies are developed through a collaborative, reflective self-study of a graduate evaluation program at a Minority Serving Institution in the southeastern United States. Twenty-two students and alumni participated in interviews exploring how evaluator com…
Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works) · Social justice (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Equity (law (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Program evaluation (2 works)