Standards-based & responsive evaluation
By: Robert E. Stake
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs); Evaluation
Other titles: Standards-based and responsive evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Criterial and interpretive evaluation. The ubiquitous search for quality; title: Standards; title: Criterial and episodic thinking; title: Roles and styles of evaluation; title: Formative and summative evaluation; title: The evaluand; title: The Evaluator; title: Roles, models, and dispositions. Models; title: Dispositions; title: Roles; title: Goal attainment evaluation; title: Evaluation for organizational development; title: Seeking holistic quality; title: Policy and generalization studies; title: Evaluation aid to social action; title: Advocacy; title: Legitimation and protection; title: Summary of roles; title: Standards-based evaluation. Standards-based; title: Bias; title: Factors; title: Criteria and standards for comparisons; title: Needs assessment; title: Goals; title: Costs; title: Representations of performance; title: What goes wrong; title: Responsive evaluation. Issues as conceptual structure; title: Observations and judgments; title: Perceptions; title: Combining responsive and standards-based evaluation; title: Experience as knowledge; title: Organizing and reporting; title: Procedures; title: Data gathering. Choosing data sources; title: Instrumentation; title: Recipient responses; title: Staff and management responses; title: Stakeholder and public responses; title: Data coding and records processing; title: Surveys; title: Observation schedules; title: Interviewing; title: Histories and artifacts; title: Analysis, synthesis, and meta-evaluation. Analysis; title: Synthesis; title: Experiential and probative inferences; title: Meta-evaluation; title: An ethic of continuous self-challenge; title: Clients, stakeholders, beneficiaries and readers. Participatory evaluation; title: Stakeholding; title: Utilization; title: Democratic evaluation; title: Negotiation of a contract; title: Writing reports; title: Styles of reporting; title: Representations of the evaluand; title: Names and labels; title: Cutting edge; title: Offering recommendations; title: Issues needing interpretation. Complexity; title: Program standardization; title: Program fairness; title: Meritocracy; title: Equal opportunity for children; title: Staff development; title: Content of training; title: Training strategies; title: Assessment; title: Evidence-based evaluation. Is evaluation science?; title: Petite and grand generalizations; title: Policy evaluation; title: Skepticism as an commitment; title: Doing it right. Quality work is ethical work; title: Personal standards; title: Professional standards; title: Human-subjects protection; title: Confidentiality and anonymity; title: The business of evaluation; title: Personnel evaluation; title: Product evaluation; title: Political and cultural contexts