| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Criterial and interpretive evaluation. The ubiquitous search for quality -- Standards -- Criterial and episodic thinking -- Roles and styles of evaluation -- Formative and summative evaluation -- The evaluand -- The Evaluator -- Roles, models, and dispositions. Models -- Dispositions -- Roles -- Goal attainment evaluation -- Evaluation for organizational development -- Seeking holistic quality -- Policy and generalization studies -- Evaluation aid to social action -- Advocacy -- Legitimation and protection -- Summary of roles -- Standards-based evaluation. Standards-based -- Bias -- Factors -- Criteria and standards for comparisons -- Needs assessment -- Goals -- Costs -- Representations of performance -- What goes wrong -- Responsive evaluation. Issues as conceptual structure -- Observations and judgments -- Perceptions -- Combining responsive and standards-based evaluation -- Experience as knowledge -- Organizing and reporting -- Procedures -- What goes wrong -- Data gathering. Choosing data sources -- Instrumentation -- Recipient responses -- Staff and management responses -- Stakeholder and public responses -- Data coding and records processing -- Surveys -- Observation schedules -- Interviewing -- Histories and artifacts -- Analysis, synthesis, and meta-evaluation. Analysis -- Synthesis -- Experiential and probative inferences -- Meta-evaluation -- An ethic of continuous self-challenge -- Clients, stakeholders, beneficiaries and readers. Participatory evaluation -- Stakeholding -- Utilization -- Democratic evaluation -- Negotiation of a contract -- Writing reports -- Styles of reporting -- Representations of the evaluand -- Names and labels -- Cutting edge -- Offering recommendations -- Issues needing interpretation. Complexity -- Program standardization -- Program fairness -- Meritocracy -- Equal opportunity for children -- Staff development -- Content of training -- Training strategies -- Assessment -- Evidence-based evaluation. Is evaluation science? -- Petite and grand generalizations -- Policy evaluation -- Bias -- Skepticism as an commitment -- Doing it right. Quality work is ethical work -- Personal standards -- Professional standards -- Human-subjects protection -- Confidentiality and anonymity -- The business of evaluation -- Personnel evaluation -- Product evaluation -- Political and cultural contexts |
| Summary |
Robert Stake explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make, from attention to stakeholders, to weighing ethical tasks, to writing a useful report |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
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Evaluation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1412985935 (ebook) |
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1483303713 |
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9781412985932 (ebook) |
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9781483303710 |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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