Download or read book Examining the Impacts of Youth Participatory Evaluation Methods on a Youth Participatory Action Research Setting written by Erica Odera and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program evaluation is a stage where relationships between program stakeholders and values are displayed. Participatory evaluation involves program participants in all stages of an evaluation, and past narrative case study literature has suggested this interaction can change participants experiences with a program in beneficial ways. This dissertation tested this proposition empirically through a quasi-experimental design. Specifically, this study sought to understand the impacts of involving young people in a participatory evaluation of a social-justice project entitled Youth as Researchers. This study randomly assigned half of Youth as Researcher groups to participate in youth-led evaluation activities. Participants in the experiment wrote reflective essays, created their own evaluation questions, and conducted peer interviews. The other half served as control groups. Data collection occurred through pre/posttest surveys and focus groups. This study examined differences among the experimental and control groups at individual, relational, and community/organizational levels. Study results indicate that participants in the experiment had changes at higher levels than participants in the control groups across six areas: self-confidence and skills, personal reflections, social connections to other youth, motivation, youth voice, and community attachment. Implications for future practice and research are explored.
Download or read book Doing Youth Participatory Action Research written by Nicole Mirra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Youth Participatory Action Research offers an unprecedented, in-depth exploration of the pragmatics and possibilities of youth-driven research. Drawing upon multiple years of experience engaging youth in rigorous, critical inquiry about the conditions impacting their lives, the authors examine how YPAR encourages the educational community to re-imagine the capabilities of young people and the purposes of teaching, learning, and research itself. Much more than a "how-to" guide for those interested in creating their own YPAR projects, this book draws upon the voices of students and educators, as well as the multiple historical traditions of critical research, to describe how youth inquiry transforms each step of the traditional research process. From identifying research questions to collecting data and disseminating findings, each chapter details how YPAR revolutionizes traditional conceptions of who produces knowledge, how it is produced, and for what purposes. The book weaves together research, policy, and practice to offer YPAR as a practice with the power to challenge entrenched social and educational inequalities, empower critically aware youth, and revolutionize pedagogy in classrooms and communities. For researchers, educators, community members, and youth who want to connect, question, and transform the world collectively, Doing Youth Participatory Action Research is a rich source of both pragmatic methodological guidance and inspiration.
Download or read book Youth Participatory Evaluation written by Kim Sabo Flores and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People is a groundbreaking book that provides step-by-step, playful, and accessible activities that have proven effective and can be used by evaluators, educators, youth workers, researchers, funders, and children’s and human rights advocates in their efforts to more effectively engage young people.
Download or read book When Youth Collaborate written by Yohei Kato and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth participatory evaluation (YPE) is a type of assessment that involves young people in analyzing the effectiveness of the programs designed to serve them. The main purpose of this study is to examine YPE methods from perspectives of the youth. A series of participatory workshops was conducted with 15 high school students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento. Through testing three different methods - including visual, written, and combined methods - this study uncovered that these three methods contributed to the youth reflecting on their experiences individually and collectively. The students learned the process of conducting participatory evaluation and YPE methods. Most importantly, they became motivated enough to apply these skills to lead a student-led workshop. The youth participants were able to increase their agency and overcome challenges such as lack of skills through getting support and resources by working with their peers and the adult facilitator being present in the research processes. Furthermore, this study found the significance of ongoing monitoring and usefulness of the Kawakita Jiro (KJ) method as a record keeping tool in participatory action research. Based on the analysis of the process and outcomes of using the three method, this study identified seven different elements comprising methods that lead to conducting more effective YPE and developed a future curriculum, tools, and guidelines that support further implementation of YPE.
Download or read book Activating Youth as Change Agents written by Amy L. Cook (Editor of Activating youth as change agents) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Activating Youth as Change Agents, editors Amy L. Cook and Ian P. Levy describe the applications of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a youth-oriented group process where school counselors collaborate alongside students in developmentally relevant ways to achieve their goals toward personal growth and positive school-community improvement. The book provides practitioners and counselors-in-training with group-counseling skills focused on action and how to engage in social justice efforts both locally at their school and in their communities.
Download or read book Revolutionizing Education written by Julio Cammarota and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive statement of YPAR as it relates to education with an informative combination of theory and practice, this edited collection addresses both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people.
Download or read book Youth Participatory Evaluation A Field in the Making written by Kim Sabo Flores and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth participatory evaluation (YPE) combines action research and participatory evaluation's commitment to stakeholder empowerment with the new philosophy of positive youth development, which emphasizes young people as community assets and resources rather than as a source of social problems. This volume illustrates a broad range of approaches YPE advocates have used to enrich evaluation practice and strength programs for youth by involving young people as researchers and evaluators. Kim Sabo begins by arguing that youth-led evaluation by it's very nature promotes youth development, because these evaluations constitute Vygotskian zones of proximal development, situations where developmental learning through performance can take place. Les Voakes uses a case study of a conference organized by Town Youth Participation Strategies to illustrate how involving youth in the planning, operational decision-making, and evaluation of programs that directly affect them can benefit both the young participants and the programs themselves. Jonathan K. London, Kristen Zimmerman and Nancy Erbstein provide case studies of evaluation methods that link community and youth development practices. Genevieve Lau, Nancy H. Netherland and Mary Haywood show how YPE can be used as a training process for youth workers, one that enables them to better understand the needs and desires of youth and therefore design better programs for them. Roger A. Hart and Jasmine Rajbhandary examine Nepal's "children's clubs", and Save the Children's YPE-inspired evaluation of these clubs, to show how children can be encouraged to develop their own programs and largely evaluate them by themselves. Bonny L. Gildin describes the All Stars Talent Show Network, an innovative program that unites youth, program funders and adult volunteers in program development and evaluation. Finally, David Fetterman sums up and reflects on the lessons learned by the contributors to this volume. This is the 98th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Evaluation.
Download or read book Equity and Justice in Developmental Science Theoretical and Methodological Issues written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues focuses on conceptual issues, definitions, and critical concepts relevant to equity and justice for the developmental sciences. This volume covers critical methodological issues that serve to either challenge or advance our understanding of, and ability to promote, equity and justice in the developmental sciences. Both volumes bring together a growing body of developmental scholarship that addresses how issues relevant to equity and justice (or their opposites) affect development and developmental outcomes, as well as scholarship focused on mitigating the developmental consequences of inequity, inequality, and injustice for young people, families, and communities and ensuring that all young people have opportunities to develop and thrive. Contains contributions from leading authorities in the field of child development and behavior Presents a coherent picture of the importance of the development of children’s participation in ongoing activity Provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common Focuses on conceptual issues, definitions, and critical concepts relevant to equity and justice for the developmental sciences
Download or read book Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions written by Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program evaluations are more relevant when conducted by the people directly involved in the programs and members of the communities they serve. Learn how empowerment and participatory evaluation can help community programs deliver more effective services! With this book, you’ll examine theoretical models, empirical investigations, and case studies that highlight important aspects of empowerment and participatory evaluation in community programs. The first half of the book presents frameworks and tools for empowerment and participatory evaluation, with an emphasis on transferring skills and building capacity. The remaining chapters examine specific efforts to implement empowerment and participatory evaluation with a range of stakeholders, highlighting the ways in which community members collaborated with evaluators and were actively engaged in the evaluation process. Covering various types of evaluations across a range of urgent social issues, this book offers practical steps for implementing evaluations and presents theoretical models as well as applied examples. The issues that Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions addresses include: challenges faced by community-based organizations in conducting evaluations of their initiativesand solutions to those challenges, including the creation and implementation of an appropriate outcomes model ways to build capacity for participatory evaluation within community initiatives ways to promote the success and accountability of community programs how collaborative process evaluation can improve HIV prevention services evaluation techniques that illustrate the benefits of a collaborative approachwith a case study of the Conflict Resolution in Schools Programs a pilot study in which empowerment evaluation principles are used to evaluate the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago’s Youth Leadership Training Series (a program designed to train youth volunteers) Presenting important information on program evaluation, community-based interventions and community empowerment, empowerment/participatory evaluation, community psychology, collaborative partnerships, program improvement, utilization-focused evaluation, consultation, and more, Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions is a resource that everyone involved in community psychology should have!
Download or read book Designs and Methods for Youth Led Research written by Melvin Delgado and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth-led research is increasing in popularity around the globe and empowers today's youth to help shape social interventions seeking to reach this population group. Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research provides a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services. Key Features: Brings together the worlds of practice and academia by providing numerous examples of field-based youth-led research projects Encourages a partnership between youth and adults to facilitate mutual respect and give young people the opportunity to make significant and lasting contributions to the creation of solutions to many of their concerns and needs Examines future challenges in the field to help develop programs that will enrich tomorrow's youth Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying youth development in a variety of Social Work, Psychology, Education, and Social Research courses. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the fields of youth development and youth services.
Download or read book The Effect of Youth Participatory Evaluation and Youth Community Action Training on Positive Youth Development written by David Joseph White and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bi-directional relationships within the personal and contextual environments of adolescents are critical to the development of adolescents and their transition into adulthood. Opportunities for youth to participate in and provide leadership in meaningful programs, gain life skills, and interact with adults in sustained relationships are key features leading to positive youth development(PYD). Youth engagement in research and evaluation is described as an engaging pathway to PYD. The purpose of this study was to measure changes in levels of PYD through adolescent participation in youth participatory evaluation and youth community action training (YPE/YCAT). Seventy-four conveniently sampled senior 4-H members from eight Oregon County 4-H programs participated in a longitudinal study over the course of six months. Each county was represented by a treatment and comparison group. County teams in the treatment group were trained in youth participatory evaluation and youth community action (YPE/YCA). The county teams within the treatment group were expected to return to their respective counties and conduct youth participatory evaluation (YPE) projects using community issues forums. Significantly and consistently higher levels of the PYD indicators of competence, confidence, connection, character, caring, and contribution (six Cs) were predicted for the treatment group participating in YPE/YCAT relative to the comparison group not participating in YPE/YCAT. A multi-dimensional survey comprised of the Generalized Self- Efficacy Scale(competence), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (confidence), and Connection, Character, Caring and Contribution Scales was emailed monthly over the course of six months, via Survey Monkey, to the 74 subjects in the eight counties. Twenty-three subjects (31%) completed the survey at all six time points: 14 subjects in the treatment group and nine in the comparison group. Given the small sample size, age, gender, and ethnicity were not considered in the analysis. The nonparametric Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Tests were used to analyze the data. The dependent variables included competence, confidence, connection, character, caring, and contribution as indicators of PYD. The independent variable consisted of YPE/YCAT administered to the treatment group. The one-tailed Mann-Whitney U Test found no significant and consistent differences (p > .05) in mean scores between the treatment and comparison groups relative to the six Cs following the training of the treatment group in YPE/YCA. The one-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test found no significant and consistent differences (p > .05) in scores within the treatment group relative to the six Cs following the training of subjects in YPE/YCA. The treatment group's participation in YPE/YCAT did not significantly and consistently affect the levels of competence, confidence, connection, character, caring, and contribution as indicators of PYD.
Download or read book Participatory Evaluation Approaches written by Elizabeth Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventing Child and Adolescent Problem Behavior written by Jeffrey M. Jenson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors trace the history and evolution of school, family, and community approaches to preventing child and adolescent problem behaviour. Empirical evidence pertaining to the prevention of substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, violence, and school dropout is reviewed. Efficacious programme strategies are identified and characteristics of effective programmes are discussed. Programme implementation, fidelity, and adaptation challenges are noted. Practice, policy, and education efforts necessary to advance prevention in school, family, and community settings are delineated.
Download or read book Youth Participation and Community Change written by Barry Checkoway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowered youth CAN and DO make a difference! Young people become empowered by their participation in the institutions and decisions that affect their lives—which in turn can lead to real positive change in the community. Youth Participation and Community Change presents leading authorities providing the latest research and effective approaches on how young people can be drawn to participate in organizations and communities. The diverse perspectives discuss youth participation in today’s society, the models and methods of its practice, the roles of youth and adults, and the future of youth participation and community in a diverse democracy. Approaches include those which promote participatory community-based research and evaluation, and involve youth groups in poor and racially segregated areas. The mainstream view of much of today’s youth is that of being victims of society rather than a being a possible positive influence on society as a whole. Youth Participation and Community Change seeks to shift the viewpoint from youth as being problems to empowering them to enact positive social change. The book explores community agency efforts to involve young people, and the process by which youth civic engagement promotes empowerment. Social work and public health approaches are examined, with cogent discussions on conceptual and theoretical issues. Empirically based case studies illustrate best practices and interdisciplinary work that draws upon psychology, sociology, social work, public health, education, and related academic disciplines and professional fields. Topics in Youth Participation and Community Change include: key dimensions of critical youth empowerment a case study of youth leadership development in Hawaii—the Sariling Gawa Youth Council the Lexington Youth Leadership Academy—a leadership development and community change program a new model for youth civic engagement in Hampton, Virginia three projects that engage urban youth in community change through participatory research youth engagement strategies and the benefits of youth participation in health research ten projects which used photovoice to represent, advocate, and enhance community health a participatory action research process with youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina the Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO training students as facilitators for the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project four characteristics of engagement in the research literature and a school-community-university project differences in developmental outcomes among youth organizing, identity-support, and traditional youth development agencies Youth Participation and Community Change is thought-provoking, enlightening reading that is perfect for organizers, planners, policymakers, advocates, youth service workers, agency administrators, educators, students, and professionals in psychology, sociology, social work, urban planning, public policy, and public health.
Download or read book Testing the Effects of Participatory Research on Youth written by Sara T. Stacy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Center Black Youth s Perspectives about Economic Mobility written by Charity Brown Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During adolescence, youth develop complex thinking skills and the ability to initiate a deeper exploration of issues within their community. Given these rapidly increasing abilities, scholars have stressed the importance of involving youth in research concerning their lives and emphasize young people's right to participate in decisions affecting them. The purpose of this methods case study is to discuss the process of using youth participatory action research (YPAR) methodology within the context of a 10-week summer program developed to center Black youth's perspectives about economic mobility in their community. This case study will highlight the core principles and phases of YPAR, discuss project implementation in a community-based setting, and reflect on important considerations related to using this methodology.
Download or read book Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods written by Sara Kindon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the justification, theorization, practice and implications of Participatory Action Research approaches and methods in the social and environmental sciences.
