What Can Be Accomplished in 25 Years

In Memoriam of Dr. Stafford Hood

Authors

  • Ayesha S. Boyce Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe-2024-0024

Abstract

Dr. Stafford Hood left this earthly realm on Sunday, January 15th, 2023. His sudden passing created ripples of grief and rumination throughout the evaluation community. Hood was an evaluation and assessment expert, scholar, practitioner, teacher, and innovator. Last year, 2023, marked the 25th anniversary of his talk “Responsive Evaluation Amistad Style,” where he introduced the term “culturally responsive evaluation.” There have been a plethora of tributes to him (see the Hood Obituary, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment [CREA] Statement, University of Illinois, CREA–Dublin, M. Q. Patton Video, American Evaluation Association Blog). Thus, as a board member of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, CREA affiliate faculty member, and mentee of Dr. Hood, the author humbly offers some brief professional and personal reflections on his legacy 1 year after his passing.

How much time is needed to uplift unheard voices, rectify years of erasure, change theory, shift praxis, connect scholars, and mentor the next generation? Dr. Stafford Hood accomplished all of this and transformed the landscape of our field in a mere 25 years. He introduced a revolution, rectified years of erasure, created a movement, and solidified his legacy.

References

Frazier-Anderson, P. N., & Bertrand Jones, T. (2015). Analysis of Love My Children: Rose Butler Browne’s contributions to culturally responsive evaluation. In S. Hood, R. K. Hopson, & H. Frierson (Eds.), Continuing the journey to reposition culture and cultural context in evaluation theory (pp. 73–87). Information Age Publishing.

Hood, S. (1998a). Responsive evaluation Amistad style: Perspectives of one African American evaluator. In R. Davis (Ed.), Proceedings of the Stake Symposium on Educational Evaluation (pp. 101–112). University of Illinois.

Hood, S. (2001). Nobody knows my name: In praise of African American evaluators who were responsive. New Directions for Evaluation, 92, 31–44.

Hood, S. (2017). Continuing the exploration of African Americans in the early history of evaluation in the United States: Contributions of Ambrose Caliver in the US Office of Education. American Journal of Evaluation, 38(2), 262–274.

Hood, S., & Hopson, R. K. (2008). Evaluation roots reconsidered: Asa Hilliard, a fallen hero in the ‘Nobody Knows My Name’ Project, and African educational excellence. Review of Educational Research, 78(3), 410–426.

Hood, S., & Hopson, R. (2018). Race and the production of knowledge in Black higher education: The legacy and contributions of Charles H. Thompson and the Journal of Negro Education in evaluation. In S. Graham, B. Foster, & J. Donaldson (Eds.), Transformation of higher education: Anthropological and policy perspectives (pp. 237–252). Information Age Publishing.

Hopson, R. K., & Hood, S. (2005). An untold story in evaluation roots: Reid Jackson and his contributions toward culturally responsive evaluation at three-fourths century. In S. Hood, R. K. Hopson, & H. T. Frierson (Eds.), The role of culture and cultural context: A mandate for inclusion, the discovery of truth, and understanding in evaluative theory and practice (pp. 85–104). Information Age Publishing.

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Published

2024-07-30

How to Cite

Boyce, A. S. (2024). What Can Be Accomplished in 25 Years: In Memoriam of Dr. Stafford Hood. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 39(1), 9–12. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe-2024-0024

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Vol. 39 No. 1 (2024): June

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Tributes

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