Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Summary

Culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) is an emerging field of study in evaluation that supports the standards issued by the American Evaluation Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Association of School Psychologists in relation to culture, assessment, and evaluation. Making culture and issues of social justice relevant to communities and people of color adds to the validity of the evaluation methods as well as the results.

African Americans are a subculture of the U.S. population in which issues of diversity, poverty, racism, and discrimination have created a unique cultural identity and worldview. CRE serves as a course of action to take all relevant factors for this population into consideration when ...