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Poster Reception #2

Qualitative Methods

Session: Poster Reception #2

264 - Leveraging on Ethnography, to increase Participation, Amplifying and Empowering Voices of Adolescents, Young and Under-represented Persons in Evaluation.

Stream: Evaluation Foundations and Methodology

Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Abstract Information: The Theme is "Amplifying and Empowering Voices in Evaluation".

Introduction: To increase the credibility, rigor, and authentic of stories which amplify and empower voices of underrepresented populations such as the adolescent girls in resource limited settings is much more yielded by using ethnographic approaches in Evaluation (Fetterman, 2019). Evaluators who apply ethnographic approaches and social theory use lenses to explore, understand, interpret, or explain evaluated programs with real-world view contexts, and in a culturally appropriate way. Ethnography is an approach of narrative inquiry that is increasingly used to evaluate education, development and health science programs and often involves naturalistic observation as a supplementary method to qualitative interviews, questionnaires, or surveys (Vougioukalou et al., 2019). Therefore, ethnographic approaches tie together fieldwork, culture, interventions, and processes to determine, measure and report on the results in the community. This approach empowers evaluators to focus more on fieldwork, collaborative engagement of people in the community, critically examine project results, amplifying and empowering the voices of the underrepresented during evaluation...

    Presenter(s)

  • Samuel Isiko, SI

    Samuel Isiko is a Doctoral Student majoring in Educational Research and Evaluation (EDRE) and a Grad
    Ohio University, United States

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  • Samuel Isiko, SI

    Samuel Isiko is a Doctoral Student majoring in Educational Research and Evaluation (EDRE) and a Grad
    Ohio University, United States

    • Presenter(s)

  • KM

    Krisanna Machtmes, PhD

    Associate Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation
    Ohio University, United States

    • Author(s)

  • Doreen A. Otieno, DAO

    Doreen, an international graduate student at Ohio University's Patton College of Education, is pursu
    Ohio University, United States