Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Culture and cultural context are viewed as essential components of a culturally responsive evaluation. A certain level of cultural competence is necessary to successfully conduct evaluations within majority African American settings.
• Notions of logic models rarely position culture and context as important elements in program theory, development, implementation, or evaluation.
• The African American Culturally Responsive Evaluation System for Academic Settings (ACESAS) is a logic model proposed to visually represent the key steps used when implementing culturally responsive evaluation in majority African American communities and with majority African American populations.
• The steps of the ACESAS logic model are based on select approaches ...