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Book Review Evaluation Journal of Australasia 2022, Vol. 22(3) 198–200 © The Author(s) 2022 Book Review Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1035719X221088344 journals.sagepub.com/home/evj V. G. Thomas and P. B. Campbell. (2021). Evaluation in today’s world: Respecting diversity, improving quality, and promoting usability. SAGE. ISBN 978 1544 348 162 Reviewed by: Charlie Tulloch , Director of Policy Performance, Malvern, VIC, Australia Evaluation in today’s world: Respecting diversity, improving quality, and promoting usability by Veronica G. Thomas and Patricia B. Campbell emerges amidst social movements including #BlackLivesMatter and #SayNoToRacism and with distrust of institutions of power in many Western countries at an all-time high. Politics in many democracies is seen by some as increasingly ideological, with good research and evidence competing for airtime with politically motivated misinformation and so-called ‘fake news’. The authors’ main point in this valuable resource is that there are opportunities for evaluation to speak truth to power, but too often, evaluations may do the opposite and perpetuate the dominant ideology. This can occur where evaluators leading the task lack diversity or where inherent biases and cultural lenses are not adequately acknowledged or mitigated. The often-unspoken (in evaluation) considerations of race and racism are called out openly as
Evaluation Journal of Australasia – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2022
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