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The Challange of Cross-Cultural Evaluation: Some Views from the Field.
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Merryfield, Merry M. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1985
Interviews with 26 experienced international evaluators are reported to identify problems and possible solutions in cross cultural evaluations (evaluations of programs or projects in developing countries by persons from the industrialized West). It is concluded that understanding cultural norms and values increases an evaluator's ability to…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Ethnocentrism, Evaluation Methods
Evaluation Encounters in Third World Settings: A Caribbean Perspective.
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Cuthbert, Marlene – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1985
Variations in perceptions of evaluation, research methods, time, social class, and priorities are only some of the reasons why evaluation work in a Third World setting calls evaluators' basic assumptions about people and society into question. Evaluation experiences in the Caribbean are used to illustrate practical problems that may arise.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods
Minority Issues in Program Evaluation.
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Madison, Anna-Marie, Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1991
The six articles of this special issue focus on minority issues in program evaluation. The aim is to begin a discussion of minority concerns about the impact of cultural dominance on definitions of social goals, the measurement of outcomes, and the political consequences of the selection of evaluation methods. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education