Evaluating Civic Youth Work: Illustrative Evaluation Designs and Methodologies for Complex Youth Program Evaluations 1st Edition

Evaluating Civic Youth Work: Illustrative Evaluation Designs and Methodologies for Complex Youth Program Evaluations 1st Edition  – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190883836,0190883839,9780190883850, 0190883855

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190883855
• ISBN-13: 9780190883850
• Author: Ross VeLure Roholt, Michael Baizerman

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. With the dissemination of youth civic engagement practice, there is a need to evaluate these efforts to satisfy funders, stakeholders, and participants. As a social innovation, youth civic engagement efforts present unique issues to evaluation and invite innovative and participatory evaluation designs. This volume brings together experienced evaluators, evaluation and youth civic engagement scholars, and civic youth workers to inform evaluation designs for youth civic engagement practice and programs. The book uses the US Center for Disease Control’s framework for evaluation process, and explores issues, questions, and choices an evaluator can make when designing an evaluation of youth civic engagement practices. The heart of the book includes case studies written by professional evaluators, evaluation and youth scholars, and youth workers to define issues for each stage and provide guidance for others who want to design a robust, rigorous, and responsive evaluation for youth civic engagement initiatives and practices. The final chapters of the book provide straightforward and clear guidance for beginning to intermediate evaluators when designing and conducting evaluation studies.

Table contents:

1. Evaluating Civic Youth Work: Explicating Evaluation Perspectives, Questions, Issues, and Choices
Section 1 Engage Stakeholders
2. Evaluating Youth Civic Engagement: Ask the Youth!
Section 2 Describe the Program
3. Using Action-Based Research With Civic Youth Work to Enhance Program Quality
4. Evaluating Young People’s Civic Agency
Section 3 Focus Evaluation Design
5. A Schematic Fantasy Evaluation Plan for Public Achievement in Northern Ireland
Section 4 Gather Credible Evidence
6. Engaging the Whole Community to Assess Civic Engagement of Youth
Section 5 Justify Conclusions
7. Evaluation of WIMPS: A Case Study of Civic Youth Work Evaluation
Section 6 Use and Share Lessons Learned
8. School Meeting Structures as Forms of Civic Engagement and School Evaluation
Section 7 Conclusion
9. Designing Civic Youth Work Evaluations
10. Evaluation Practice to Enhance Civic Youth Work
11. Alternative Frameworks for Evaluating Complex Youth Civic Engagement Programs

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