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Shaping a New Generation of Culturally Responsive Evaluators: Program Director Perspectives on the Role of the Internship Experience
Author(s) -
Bryan Michelle L.,
O'Sullivan Rita
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20094
Subject(s) - internship , framing (construction) , context (archaeology) , diversity (politics) , program evaluation , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , medical education , medicine , political science , engineering , paleontology , structural engineering , public administration , anthropology , biology
In this chapter, we reflect on the role of the internship experience (also known as the practical evaluation project placement) within the overall design and function of the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program as well as its relationship to program goals and outcomes. We argue that explicit consideration of the program's cultural context is critical for understanding the impact of the internship experience on the program's overall quality and effectiveness. Drawing on our experiences as former codirectors, as well as our former interns’ reflections, we address the ways in which cultural and contextual factors within their internship sites, and within the larger program itself, affected the interns’ ability to incorporate tenets of culturally responsive evaluation into their internship experience. Framing the internship as both a pedagogical and a practical space for merging evaluation theory and practice, we discuss our attempts to understand its role in supporting interns’ evolving understanding of culturally responsive evaluation.