Avent Cherie M
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, USA.
Eval Program Plann. 2025 Feb;108:102511. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102511. Epub 2024 Oct 1.
Language is critical in evaluation. It influences understanding of goal attainment, judgments made about the quality of a program, interactions between stakeholder groups, interpretation of findings, and future actions. This paper reports research on language that unearths complexities related to the agenda of diversifying STEM and the utilization of evaluation in achieving its goal through an examination of STEM education evaluators' conceptualizations of diversity, equity, and inclusion and the implications for their practice. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed (1) the multifaceted nature of terms such as equity, diversity, and inclusion, (2) the role of an evaluator is not singular, and (3) the importance of surfacing the ways in which language is both value-laden and socially shaping for potentially disrupting one's knowledge of status quo injustices.
语言在评估中至关重要。它影响着对目标达成情况的理解、对项目质量的判断、利益相关者群体之间的互动、研究结果的解读以及未来行动。本文报告了一项关于语言的研究，该研究通过考察STEM教育评估者对多样性、公平性和包容性的概念化以及对其实践的影响，揭示了与STEM多元化议程以及利用评估实现其目标相关的复杂性。数据通过半结构化访谈收集。研究结果显示：（1）公平、多样性和包容性等术语具有多面性；（2）评估者的角色并非单一；（3）揭示语言既有价值负载又具有社会塑造性的方式对于可能扰乱一个人对现状不公正的认知具有重要意义。
