In this episode, I interview David Fetterman about Empowerment Evaluation.  David Fetterman introduced empowerment evaluation to the field of evaluation during his presidential address 21 years ago. Since that time it has been used in over 16 countries, ranging from corporate offices of Google and Hewlett-Packard to squatter settlements and townships in South Africa.  Empowerment evaluation has been used by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US. Department of Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Native American tribes in reservations stretching from Michigan to San Diego.  

For more information about empowerment evaluation see the following:

Better Evaluation: https://betterevaluation.org/en/plan/…

Blog Postings: Stanford Social Innovations Review – This is a brief article about another empowerment evaluation book: Fetterman, D.M. (2103). Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/empow… Empowerment Evaluation Blog.

eevaluation.blogspot.com

Videos:

Brief video describing empowerment evaluation. See our Ignite Lecture (20 slides in 5 minutes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUvV… Video of an empowerment evaluation exercised used to facilitate an NSF funded computer science education evaluation initiative. It was used specifically to help them assess their efforts and move their efforts forward, including building a repository of STEM and CS evaluation tools and instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ploz0…

Articles:

Fetterman, D.M. (2011). Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation Case Examples: California Institute of Integral Studies and Stanford University. In Secolsky, C. and Denison, D.B. (eds.) Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education. New York: Routledge.

Academic Medicine published an article about the use of empowerment evaluation to he...