Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Culturally Responsive Evaluation

Drawing from a cross-disciplinary synthesis of scholarship by researchers who have addressed the centrality of culture in their work, Hopson (2009) has provided a critically important and refined definition of CRE. He defines CRE as

a theoretical, conceptual and inherently political position that includes the centrality of and attunes to culture in the theory and practice of evaluation. That is, CRE recognizes that demographic, sociopolitical and contextual dimensions, locations and perspectives, and characteristics of culture matter fundamentally in evaluation. (p. 433)

Thus, in an effort to place culture at the center of the evaluation, CRE advocates for a comprehensive assessment of culture, its implication ...