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Poster Reception #2

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

Session: Poster Reception #2

216 - Amplifying and Empowering Student Voices in Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation (CREE)

Stream: Professional Development and Leadership

Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Abstract Information: This poster presentation amplifies student and alumni perspectives of graduate studies and work as new evaluators. Student and alumni perspectives highlighted in this poster are from American University’s online Master of Science in Measurement and Evaluation Program, which centers Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation (CREE) to elevate community voices. The poster will include information on how faculty have designed coursework, including mentorship and assessment strategies. Through a series of videos (stored online and accessed through QR codes), students and alumni will reflect on their experiences as new evaluators, showing how they centered CREE in their assignments and early evaluation work. In the videos, students and alumni will review how they engage in discussions around CREE and engage in the decolonization of evaluation, exploring their own reflexivity and positionality. They will discuss the mentorship they received from faculty, and highlight how intersections of identity, culture, and language illustrate the need for continued reflexivity. Students and alumni will provide feedback on how faculty can work to support the learning and growth of students as new evaluators who prioritize CREE. The poster format provides an opportunity to amplify the voices of students and alumni, many of whom cannot afford to attend the conference, but can still participate through recorded videos.