ERIC Number: EJ1479556
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 21
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Lessons Learned across Three Evaluations Incorporating Participant-Generated Photo Elicitation Interviewing
Carolyn A. Berry1; Courtney Abrams1; Margaret M. Paul2; Rachel E. Massar1; Kayla M. Fennelly1; Beth C. Weitzman3
American Journal of Evaluation, v46 n3 p381-401 2025
Qualitative interviews and focus groups are commonly used methods to elicit participants' voices in program evaluations. However, the use of these data-gathering methods can fall short of the goal; even with open-ended questions, the protocols guiding and shaping interviews and focus groups heavily reflect the evaluators' understanding and experience of the program or intervention under consideration and its target population(s). In this paper, we describe three cases that employed a method of inquiry that is underutilized in evaluation but one that we believe holds great potential as a method to enhance interpersonal reflexivity, namely participant-generated photo-elicitation interviewing (PEI). Across three diverse settings and interventions, we readily added participant-generated PEI to our mixed methods evaluations. We found participant-generated PEI to add great value to the evaluations by complementing our other data collection methods, allowing for greater participant voice, challenging evaluators' assumptions, enhancing dissemination efforts, and fostering our reflexivity.
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Photography, Visual Aids, Interviews, Data Collection, Research Methodology, Health Services, Telecommunications, Low Income, Child Development, Health Promotion, Food
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Mexico; New York (New York); New York
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Author Affiliations: 1Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 2Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 3Steinhardt School–Dept. Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA