Jacobson Miriam R, Azzam Tarek
ICF, 9300 Lee Highway Fairfax, VA 22031, USA.
Claremont Graduate University, 123 East 8th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Eval Program Plann. 2018 Jun;68:64-73. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.02.006. Epub 2018 Feb 10.
This article presents a study of the effects of stakeholder involvement on perceptions of an evaluation's credibility. Crowdsourced members of the public and a group of educational administrators read a description of a hypothetical program and two evaluations of the program: one conducted by a researcher and one conducted by program staff (i.e. program stakeholders). Study participants were randomly assigned versions of the scenario with different levels of stakeholder credibility and types of findings. Results showed that both samples perceived the researcher's evaluation findings to be more credible than the program staff's, but that this difference was significantly reduced when the program staff were described to be highly credible. The article concludes with implications for theory and research on evaluation dissemination and stakeholder involvement.
本文介绍了一项关于利益相关者参与对评估可信度认知影响的研究。公众众包成员和一组教育管理人员阅读了一个假设项目的描述以及该项目的两项评估：一项由研究人员进行，另一项由项目工作人员（即项目利益相关者）进行。研究参与者被随机分配到具有不同利益相关者可信度水平和结果类型的情景版本。结果表明，两个样本都认为研究人员的评估结果比项目工作人员的更可信，但当项目工作人员被描述为高度可信时，这种差异显著减小。文章最后讨论了对评估传播和利益相关者参与的理论及研究的启示。
