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Nielsen, Julie Ellen Ayers.

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Indigenous approaches to evaluation in Minnesota's urban based American Indian nonprofit organizations.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Indigenous approaches to evaluation in Minnesota's urban based American Indian nonprofit organizations./
Author:	Nielsen, Julie Ellen Ayers.
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1451.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-04A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3352807
ISBN:	9781109110562

Indigenous approaches to evaluation in Minnesota's urban based American Indian nonprofit organizations.
Nielsen, Julie Ellen Ayers.

Indigenous approaches to evaluation in Minnesota's urban based American Indian nonprofit organizations. - 221 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1451.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2009.

The purpose of the study was to develop greater understanding of the practice of evaluation in urban-based indigenous settings, to identify characteristics of indigenous approaches to evaluation from the perspective of urban-based American Indian nonprofit leaders, and to identify characteristics of urban American Indians as occupying what Biolsi (2005) terms "Indigenous National Space." Specifically, this study addressed the following questions: (1) How do leaders of American Indian non-profit organizations set in urban settings across Minnesota view and practice evaluation? (2) How would such leaders define indigenous approaches to evaluation? (a) What would facilitate the application of indigenous approaches to evaluation? (b) What would constrain the application of indigenous approaches to evaluation? (3) How does the urban experience shape evaluation in American Indian nonprofit settings?

ISBN: 9781109110562Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Indigenous approaches to evaluation in Minnesota's urban based American Indian nonprofit organizations.
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520 $a The purpose of the study was to develop greater understanding of the practice of evaluation in urban-based indigenous settings, to identify characteristics of indigenous approaches to evaluation from the perspective of urban-based American Indian nonprofit leaders, and to identify characteristics of urban American Indians as occupying what Biolsi (2005) terms "Indigenous National Space." Specifically, this study addressed the following questions: (1) How do leaders of American Indian non-profit organizations set in urban settings across Minnesota view and practice evaluation? (2) How would such leaders define indigenous approaches to evaluation? (a) What would facilitate the application of indigenous approaches to evaluation? (b) What would constrain the application of indigenous approaches to evaluation? (3) How does the urban experience shape evaluation in American Indian nonprofit settings?
520 $a There were three phases of study. A pilot study was conducted first to identify all of the urban-based American Indian nonprofit organizations meeting the criteria detailed in Chapter 3 using publically available data from the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General. Upon identifying the population a paper-based survey was administered to all of the executive directors of the organizations following Dillman's (2007) Tailored Design Method. During the pilot study phase four organizations emerged as having a notable level of intensity (Miles & Huberman, 1994. p. 25) in thinking about characteristics of indigenous approaches to evaluation through their participation in a process that they called "The American Indian Evaluation Institute," and were identified as potential case study participants.
520 $a The second phase of the research used case study methodology. Of the four organizations identified during the pilot study, two were able to devote staff time for interviews and the sharing of documents. A total of eight interviews were conducted and included executive directors, program managers, and one board director. All of the interviews were conducted in person at the organizations. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim, and were then coded using the NVivo qualitative data analysis program. To answer the first and third question, data were analyzed inductively, a process that Patton (2002) describes as one that "involves discovering patterns, themes, and categories in one's data. Findings emerge out of the data, through the analyst's interactions with the data" (p. 453 emphasis in the original). The second question was analyzed using a modified analytic induction to sensitize the findings by "using the literature-derived concepts" (Patton, 2002. p. 494) as a starting point. This was followed by inductive analysis to remain open to discovery of themes not present in the literature.
520 $a During the final phase of the study the preliminary findings of the case studies were reviewed by leaders of urban-based American Indian nonprofit organizations through two focus groups. For the most part, focus group participants confirmed the case study findings, but they also added deeper meanings to the preliminary findings by elaborating on the findings, expanding the findings, and by providing additional examples.
520 $a The study findings indicated that similar to Carman's (2007) findings on evaluation in community based organizations, the evaluation practices of the urban-based American Indian nonprofit organizations participating in this study were tied closely to funder requirements. Although the study participants were exercising self-determination in their culturally-specific programming, it did not appear to extend into the practice of evaluation. Nonetheless, participants provided conceptual aspects of what might be comprised in indigenous approaches to evaluation that were remarkably consistent with the literature on indigenous approaches to research.
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