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Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation

Editat de Robert E. Stake
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2003
Written by a master writer and evaluator, this text explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make--from attention to stakeholders, to weighing ethical risks, to writing a useful report--when doing an evaluation. The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or, qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. Throughout the book, the author presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader. He leads audiences to consider whether they would prefer to remain independent as evaluators or to join with a staff and/or stakeholders connected to the program; to aid in development formatively or to assess the whole program summatively; to invest minimally or largely in trying out and validating data gathering procedures; and how much to support professional associations, their standards, and ethics. After reading the book, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761926658
ISBN-10: 0761926658
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

We can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will want to have in their personal library. It tells us a lot about our field, highlights contrasting ways of evaluating without pitting one against the other, and manages to remind us why many of us chose this line of work in the first place.

Cuprins

First Words
1. 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
2. Roles, Models, and Dispositions
Models
Dispositions
Roles
3. Standards-Based Evaluation
Standards-Based
Bias
Factors
Criteria and Standards for Comparisons
Needs Assessment
Goals
Costs
Representations of Performance
What Goes Wrong
4. 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
5. 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
6. Analysis, Synthesis, and Meta-evaluation
Analysis
Synthesis
Experiential and Probative Inferences
Meta-evaluation
An Ethic of Continuous Self-Challenge
7.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
8. Issues Needing Interpretation
Complexity
Program Standardization
Program Fairness
Staff Development
9. Evidence-Based Evaluation
Is Evaluation Science?
Petite and Grand Generalizations
Policy Evaluation
Bias
Skepticism as a Commitment
10. 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
Last Words
References
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Descriere

The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. After reading the text, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation. Throughout the book, Stake presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader:
- To remain independent or to join with program staff or stakeholders
- To value personal experience as evidence or to shun it as biased
- To aid development formatively or to assess the existing program summatively
- To use issues, goals, gains, efficiency, or problem solving as the key conceptual structure
- To invest small or large in trying out and validating data-gathering procedures
- To support the standards and ethical codes of professional associations