Latest publication (2024)
Happy to announce the (online) publication of the New Directions for Evaluation article entitled "Culturally responsive evaluation with Latinx communities through culturally specific assessment: Building the Latinx immigration trauma assessment." The article was a pandemic-era collaboration between myself and my research colleague, Dr. Daniela G. Domínguez of On the Margins LLC and the University of San Francisco. This work was our attempt to establish an assessment framework for a more systematic understanding of the unique forms of trauma experienced by Latinx immigrants. The journal article is based on the theoretical framework I developed for my 2021 dissertation. The abstract below provides more details of the work. For more particulars, feel free to reach out to arrange a discussion with your research group. The article is available at my ResearchGate.net site.
Abstract
This article emphasizes that assessments misaligned with the populations of study have the potential for measurement disjuncture, invalidation of data meaning, and, ultimately, the invalidation of evaluation findings. The authors conducted a study to identify and describe the development of a culturally specific assessment (CSA) model and how it was used in the development of a Latinx Immigration Trauma assessment framework to reflect the unique experiences of Latinx immigrants. The authors outline the use of the Disjuncture-response Dialectic as the theoretical grounding and utilize a Critical comparative case study design. The resultant multidimensional Latinx Immigration Trauma Assessment framework consists of the dimensions of nervios, desaliento, desesperanza, duelo, y pena. The development process may encourage evaluators to seek deeper understanding of their methodological choices when examining the efficacy of trauma interventions for Latinx immigrants.
First published: 11 June 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20593
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7 个月Here is the revised citation: Sul, D., & Domínguez, D. G. (2024). Culturally responsive evaluation with Latinx communities through culturally specific assessment: Building the Latinx immigration trauma assessment. New Directions for Evaluation, 2024(181), 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20593
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8 个月This is a critical contribution David Sul, Ed.D.! Jessica Dym Bartlett, MSW, PhD I saw this and immediately thought it might be relevant to your work.
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8 个月Congratulations David Sul, Ed.D. on your latest publication. I feel blessed to be a student of yours. I look forward to my continued studies under you.
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8 个月Congrats, David! This is one of those issues of NDE that I will be reading cover to cover.