Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation: Empirical Implications for Theory and Practice

About Fiona Cramjill Chouinard

Jill Anne Chouinard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently the Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Her main interests are in cross-cultural/culturally responsive approaches to research and evaluation participatory research and evaluation and evaluation and public policy. She has extensive experience working on evaluations at the community level in the areas of education and training social services health and organizational learning and change. She positions evaluation as a catalyst for learning collaboration social justice and community change.   Fiona Cram founded Katoa Ltd in 2003 an indigenous research organisation that undertakes kaupapa Mori (by for and with the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) research evaluation and training. Before establishing Katoa Ltd she was a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the International Research Institute for Mori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association journal Evaluation Matters He Take To Te Aromatawai published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and has also co-edited a number of research books. She has undertaken projects for a number of organisations including Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Mori Affairs) the Ministry of Health and Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc. Dr Crams project work publications and conference presentations on kaupapa Mori have made significant contribtions to indigenous research and evaluation both in New Zealand and within the international community.