Program Evaluation: A Practitioner's Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Dale M. Brethower

ISBN 10: 9401167591 / ISBN 13: 9789401167598

Editore: Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing 1983-01-01, 1983

Riguardo questo articolo

Codice articolo 6666-IUK-9789401167598

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Program Evaluation: A Practitioner's Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)
• Editore: Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing 1983-01-01
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9401167591
• ISBN 13: 9789401167598
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

Descrizione articolo

Contenuti

I. Conducting Evaluation—The Sourcebook.- 1. Focusing the Evaluation.- What Will be Evaluated?.- What is the Purpose for Evaluating?.- Who Will be Affected by or Involved in the Evaluation?.- What Elements in the Setting are Likely to Influence the Evaluation?.- What are the Critical Evaluation Questions?.- Does the Evaluation have the Potential for Success?.- 2. Designing Evaluation.- What are Some Alternative Ways to Design Evaluation?.- What Does a Design Include?.- How do You Construct a Design?.- How do You Recognize a Good Design?.- 3. Collecting Information.- What Kinds of Information Should You Collect?.- What Procedures Should You Use to Collect the Needed Information?.- How Much Information Should You Collect?.- Will You Select or Develop Instruments?.- How do You Establish Reliable and Valid Instrumentation?.- How do You Plan the Information Collection Effort to Get the Most Information at the Lowest Cost?.- 4. Analyzing Information.- How Will You Handle Returned Data?.- Are Data Worth Analyzing?.- How Will You Analyze the Information?.- How Will You Interpret the Results of Analyses?.- 5. Reporting Information.- Who Should Get an Evaluation Report?.- What Content Should be Included in a Report?.- How Will Reports be Delivered?.- What is the Appropriate Style and Structure for the Report?.- How Can You Help Audiences Interpret and Use Reports?.- When Should Reports be Scheduled?.- 6. Managing Evaluation.- Who Should Run the Evaluation?.- How Should Evaluation Responsibilities be Formalized?.- How Much Should the Evaluation Cost?.- How Should Evaluation Tasks be Organized and Scheduled?.- What Kinds of Problems Can be Expected?.- 7. Evaluating Evaluation (Meta-Evaluation).- What are Some Good Uses of Meta-Evaluation?.- Who Should do The Meta-Evaluation?.- What Criteria or Standards Should You Use to Evaluate the Evaluation?.- How do You Apply a Set of Meta-Evaluation Criteria?.- What Procedures are Used in Meta-Evaluation?.