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Over the past 20 years, there has been a large increase in the number of evaluations conducted and utilized. During the same time period, there has been an emphasis on the professionalization of evaluation and evaluators and on the skills and knowledge evaluators need to be effective. In today’s world, along with having more traditional evaluation skills and knowledge, evaluators need to understand how to implement high-quality evaluations within different cultural contexts in a world that is increasingly distrustful of data and facts. The goal of this book is to provide readers with this knowledge and those skills.

After reading this chapter and participating in the activities, readers will be able to meet the following learning objectives:

 Describe the book’s goals and the authors’ philosophy underlying the book

 Have a general knowledge of the content to be covered in the book

 Describe what a racialized and social justice perspective is

 Explain the meaning and importance of cultural competence and responsiveness in terms of evaluation

 Explain ways that bias and perceptions of objectivity can skew evaluations

 List some challenges of doing evaluation in today’s world