Designing Impact Evaluation for Students' Engagement with Communities in Planning Education. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sieh, Louie; Frank, Andrea I.
• Is Part Of: Journal of planning education and research. Volume 42:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 243
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: student-community engagement -- community engagement -- impact -- planning evaluation -- integrated evaluation -- evaluation design -- planning education -- community planning; Participación comunitaria estudiantil -- involucramiento comunitario -- impacto -- evaluación de la planificación urbana -- evaluación integrada -- diseño de evaluación -- educación en planificación urbana -- planificación comunitaria; 学生 - 社区参与 -- 社区参与 -- 影响 -- 规划评估 -- 综合评估 -- 评估设计 -- 规划教育 -- 社区规划; Regional planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; City planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1177/0739456X18807287
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-456X

Abstract

Universities increasingly promote community engagement that involves students. However, very little has been done to evaluate student-community engagement (SCE) for their impact on "the community." This research innovatively juxtaposes literature on the evaluation of planning and public policy with three different instances of SCE to explore the scope and nature of such impact evaluation within the context of planning education. Results suggest considerable potential of a naturalistic, ongoing, and integrated evaluation approach for and with communities in planning-related SCEs and, by extension, as a practical theory for evaluation design in community planning itself.