ABSTRACT

This chapter explains how to evaluate practical video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) project achievements. It argues that VRE projects are difficult to evaluate using conventional metrics. The chapter suggests that VRE operates with and amidst maximum complexity, unconventional approaches to evaluation. It summarizes these project published work where these achievements. VRE’s co-creative approach therefore identifies closely with Mertens’ paradigm promoting transformative research and evaluation. VRE pulls back a little, however, from the linguistically and narratively negotiated agreements and understandings that predominate in Mertens’ paradigm. Measurement is less suited to ascertain the impact of sociocultural interventions such as VRE facing complex circumstances and engaging with unpredictable developments. The chapter provides a brief reports that summarize VRE achievements accomplished over the years since its inception in 2001. It addresses the vexed issue of how to evaluate VRE initiatives, and it has proposed a range of evaluation criteria.