Chapter one Educational evaluation:a history without mystery--Chapter two Alternative approaches to educational evaluation--Chapter three Educational objectives and educational evaluation--Chapter foru A wealth of assessment alternatives--Chapter five Classical measurement considerations--Chapter six Criterion-referenced measurement--Chapter seven Assessing affect:syrategies and tactics--Chapter eight Masuring the hard to measure--Chapter nine Focus groups :a potent qualitative data-gathering procedure--Chapter ten Data gathering designs--Chapter eleven Sampling strategies--Chapter twelve Analyzing evaluative data--Chapter thirteen Reporting evaluation results--Chapter fourteen Cost analysis and the evaluator--Chapter fifteen Teacher evaluation A special challenge--Chapter sixteen Instructional considerations for educational evaluators--Chapter seventeen A potpourri of evaluation issues