This article presents a new tool called Critical Evaluation Capital (CEC) designed to address issues of equity and social justice in program evaluation. CEC is grounded in the tenants of critical race theory and inspired by Yosso’s work on community cultural wealth which raises critical issues of positionality and access. CEC is a system for identifying, quantifying, and disrupting the impact of different kinds of power and privilege (named here as capital) that influence the evaluation process and may distort its findings and/or alter its impact. CEC is not meant to be an entirely new evaluation framework or approach, but rather it is designed to be used as a “tool” in conjunction with other contemporary evaluation methodologies, specifically those that reposition the role of the evaluation from an “objective” outsider to an engaged stakeholder. I introduce and describe herein seven foundational categories of CEC, including framing capital, identity capital, connectivity capital, inquiry capital, risk capital, symbolic capital, and dissemination capital, along with a series of accompanying critical questions to guide reflective practice for each capital. I also describe how CEC can be applied across the evaluand—both proactively and retrospectively. I conclude with some key opportunities and challenges CEC presents for evaluators and other key stakeholder groups in the evaluand.

本文介绍了一种名为批判性评估资本 (CEC) 的新工具，旨在解决项目评估中的公平和社会正义问题。CEC 以批判种族理论为基础，并受到 Yosso 在社区文化财富方面的工作的启发，该工作提出了位置和访问的关键问题。CEC 是一个系统，用于识别、量化和破坏影响评估过程并可能扭曲其结果和/或改变其影响的不同类型的权力和特权（此处称为资本）的影响。CEC 并不意味着是一个全新的评估框架或方法，而是旨在用作结合使用的“工具”与其他当代评估方法，特别是那些将评估的角色从“客观”局外人重新定位为参与的利益相关者的方法。我在此介绍和描述 CEC 的七个基本类别，包括框架资本、身份资本、连接资本、探究资本、风险资本、符号资本和传播资本，以及一系列伴随的关键问题，以指导每个资本的反思实践。我还描述了如何在整个评估过程中应用 CEC——主动和回顾性。最后，我总结了 CEC 为评估人员和评估对象中的其他主要利益相关者群体带来的一些关键机遇和挑战。