MIXED METHODS EVALUATION

Mixed Methods Evaluation: Combination of Qualitative Paradigm for Evaluating Sensitive Culture and Parents with Deaf and Disabled Children



Mixed Methods Evaluation

Introduction

Societies have different cultures based upon religion, social attitude, race and regional inhabitants, and professional standards and political correctness. Different social realities create competing conflicting interests and misunderstanding among communities within one communities and individual within same families. However, Evaluating Sensitive cultures with deaf and disability is mounting challenge. Using mixed methods of different paradigms is commonly used theme to evaluate, improve, and make judgmental decision making for organizations, programs administrators, and policy maker, and primary users Greene at el. (1997). Nevertheless, using the methods of only one paradigm is rarely used in evaluation world. Combination three interpretive paradigm methods is strategically a way to discover the hidden unknowns sensitive culture with deaf and disability. This is important that it combines it explains and presents strategy to conduct rigid evaluation in a circumstance where allegiance of culture is the main standard. It is criteria for evaluation, standards, data, and judgement for decision making, or in other words the rationale is to build robust understanding and meet the needs of the primary users or clients (Edited, 1998).

 

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to craft together three methods in empirical qualitative paradigm to evaluate implicit and explicit standards of social phenomenon for the improvement of the program or the policy. There are increasing cases and communities with sensitive culture in United States and in Minnesota. This is significant because it presents combination of approaches and methods to a) train professionals planning to conduction psychometric, educational and health assessment to culturally sensitive family and community members, b) Empowerment of the communities and family members with sensitive culture and element of especial education and form of disability, c) evaluation of culturally sensitive communities with disabilities by qualitative paradigm for better understanding analysis, interpreting information, and decision making. In one hand, this sequence gives pace building rapport and trust and on the other hand it reduces the limits the problems of unintended bias (Edited, 1998).

It requires accumulated efforts and commitment to dig deeper and penetrate the barriers. The root causes of certain cultural standard always have causes and effects to diminish or innovation of the communities. In many instances, historical back ground and experience of the communities, families and individuals is the dominant drive of the contemporary. Such causes can be attributed to belief, life standard, and professional and political correctness.

In last three decades evaluation has become an important tool and a theme to gauge the program, organizations, social and individual issues, and measure outcome and impacts. One important factor to recognize is that evaluation is important as theme and it is difficult carryout or implement. One of the most discrepant characteristics that make evaluation difficult is because it has a number of definitions depending the objective and the purpose of the program or the phenomenon to evaluate. According to Bone at el (2002) the following operational definition is to ...