Adapting the values engaged, educative evaluation framework to the evaluation of a community-based program
Nuria Jaumot-Pascual
(2024). Adapting the values engaged, educative evaluation framework to the evaluation of a community-based program in Education and New Developments. 2024. Vol. 1, pp 476-480.
Summary
The values engaged, educative (VEE) evaluation framework (Greene, DeStefano, Burgon, & Hall, 2006) was originally conceived for, and implemented in, STEM educational contexts. Its emphasis on responsive engagement with the values of equity and social justice, makes it adaptive to other contexts. This article reports on the extent to which the VEE evaluation framework was culturally responsive when applied to an evaluation of a community-based healthy living program for older adults, a minoritized and underserved population. Findings suggest affordances of using VEE in the context of a healthy living program include engaging stakeholders in the evaluation and addressing content, pedagogy, and equity. The framework鈥檚 key limitation includes lack of attention to organizational capacity. To facilitate its transferability beyond STEM settings to other context, the inclusion of a new element in the VEE evaluation framework, organizational capacity, is proposed.