This chapter discusses two aspects of ethnographic evaluation essential to establishing an evaluation process which engages program stakeholders in considering what they are doing and why they are doing it. The authors use a case study of an ethnographic evaluation to illustrate how they 1) collaborated over time to design and carry out a study that was credible and useful and 2) derived standards for evaluative judgments informed by emic perspectives. Both of these topics have implications for evaluation interpretations and validity, both are centrally related to communicating findings, and both bear on issues of utilization and impact.
Communicating Evaluation Findings as a Process: The Case for Delayed Gratification
Date: January 1993
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