TRANSFORMATIVE EVALUATION IN PRACTICE
Develop, conduct, and lead a participatory program evaluation using a transformative lens. Emphasizes collaborative strategies that build evaluation capacity and improve the use of evaluation findings. Build knowledge and skills in evaluation and apply them through projects with institutions (e.g. community organizations, voluntary associations or foundations) involved in creating a civil and just society. Topics include but are not limited to professional standards and ethical practice, understanding context and engaging stakeholders, the role of power in evaluation, evaluation theory, mixed methods designs, developmental and collective approaches to evaluation, and systems thinking.
Topics
- but are not limited to professional standards and ethical practice
- understanding context and engaging stakeholders
- the role of power in evaluation
- evaluation theory
- mixed methods designs
- developmental and collective approaches to evaluation
- and systems thinking
Topics explicitly listed in official catalogue description
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use terminology and apply concepts common to transformative evaluation practice; Audience: Graduate 2. Build skills to create effective and equitable partnerships with community organizations that want to evaluate program(s) or services; Audience: Graduate 3. Develop capacity to assess an evaluation’s context and determine an approach and design for the evaluation using a transformative lens; Audience: Graduate 4. Apply program evaluation standards and ethical guidelines in the development, design, conduct and reporting of an evaluation; Audience: Graduate 5. Appropriately select and utilize qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches to collect and analyze data; and Audience: Graduate 6. Acquire skills and tools to effectively communicate with and engage stakeholders throughout the evaluation process. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use terminology and apply concepts common to transformative evaluation practice; Audience: Graduate 2. Build skills to create effective and equitable partnerships with community organizations that want to evaluate program(s) or services; Audience: Graduate 3. Develop capacity to assess an evaluation’s context and determine an approach and design for the evaluation using a transformative lens; Audience: Graduate 4. Apply program evaluation standards and ethical guidelines in the development, design, conduct and reporting of an evaluation; Audience: Graduate 5. Appropriately select and utilize qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches to collect and analyze data; and Audience: Graduate 6. Acquire skills and tools to effectively communicate with and engage stakeholders throughout the evaluation process. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027