SWREN422R Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.2: S. Satyamurti

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Social Work (Bachelor of Social Work)
• Course: SWREN422R
• Professor: Angela Smith

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Swren 422r chapter 4. 2: before embarking on a participatory process to develop the evaluation framework, the evaluation working group sought guidance from the literature. It became readily apparent that a wide variety of terms are used to describe the spectrum of stakeholder involvement: the most common examples are empowerment evaluation (fetterman, 1996; schnoes, Murphy-berman, & chambers, 2000); participatory evaluation/participatory action research evaluation (acharya, kumar, satyamurti, & tandon, n. d. ; cousins & earl, 1992; Patton, 1997; poland, tupker, & breland, 2002; vander stoep, williams, jones, green, & Benefits of a participatory approach: the participatory approach, while not universally appropriate, is sensitive and responsive to program uniqueness and captures variations in stages of program development, geographical locations, and level of stakeholder participation (acharya et al. , n. d. ; Cockerill et al. , 2000; fetterman, 1996, 1997; schnoes et al. , 2000; vanderplaat, samson, Ayers, 1987; fetterman, 1996; gilliam et al. , 2002; poland et al. , 2002; schnoes et al. ,