Evaluation Capacity Building Through Community-University Partnership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah V Suiter (0000-0001-8664-5974, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), Kathryn Y Morgan (0000-0002-1804-5384, Sewanee: The University of the South), Sara Eccleston (University of Washington Tacoma) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-337 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10982140231209499 |
| OpenAlex | W4391751430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
Evaluation is essential to achieving program outcomes, especially when stakeholders engage with evaluation and make use of the findings. Both of these activities require evaluation capacity that might not be present in community-based organizations. In this paper, we describe how community-university partnership models can support evaluation capacity building (ECB). The basic framework for our ECB initiative was a semester-long, master's-level university course in which 5–6 community partners worked with small groups of 3–4 students to design an evaluation plan. We used mixed-methods to assess (1) if organizations implemented the evaluation plans developed in the course; (2) how organizations used the findings; and (3) what evaluation skills participants continued to use after the course ended. We found that organizations that implemented their evaluation plans gained intended outcomes of ECB, such as improving practice and communicating with stakeholders. These results suggest that community-university partnerships for developing ECB can be effective
Capacity building · Economic growth · Economics · Evaluation methods · General partnership · Political science · Program evaluation · Sociology · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Public Administration
Evaluation
The Science of Evaluation
Toward a definition of the ECB process
A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity
Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century
A review of research on fidelity of implementation
Research electronic data capture (Redcap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
The Role of Evaluative Thinking in the Teaching of Evaluation
Partner-Centered Evaluation Capacity Building
Developing the Community Empowered Research Training Program
A Co-Learning Model for Community-Engaged Program Evaluation
Opening the Black Box
The Challenges of Collaboration for Academic and Community Partners in a Research Partnership
A holistic, learning-centred approach to building evaluation capacity in development organizations
Defining Evaluation Capacity Building
Toward a Taxonomy of Essential Evaluator Competencies
Defining and Teaching Evaluative Thinking
A Research Synthesis of the Evaluation Capacity Building Literature
Why Aren’t Evaluations Working and What to Do About It
A Course Model for Building Evaluation Capacity Through a University–Community Partnership
Understanding Dimensions of Organizational Evaluation Capacity
A Multidisciplinary Model of Evaluation Capacity Building
The Power and the Promise
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |