David Fetterman

Interests

Empowerment evaluation

Medical education

Technology

Ethnography

Gifted and talented education

Positions

Co-chair, Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG

Past-president, American Evaluation Association

Recent Books

Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder Involvement Approaches

Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

Foundations of Empowerment Evaluation

Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability

Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett-Packard's $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice

Ethnography: Step by Step (4th edition)

Selected Articles

Fetterman, D.M. (2017). Transformative Empowerment Evaluation and Freireian Pedagogy: Alignment with an Emancipatory Tradition. In Patton, M.Q. (ed.) Pedagogy of Evaluation: The Contributions of Paulo Freire to Global Evaluation Thinking and Practice. New Directions for Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Fetterman, D.M., Deitz, J., and Gesundheit, N. (2010). Empowerment evaluation: A collaborative approach to evaluating and transforming a medical school curriculum. Academic Medicine, 85(5):813-820.

Empowerment Evaluation: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow