AuthorBrinkerhoff, Robert O. author
TitleProgram Evaluation [electronic resource] : A Practitioner's Guide for Trainers and Educators / by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Dale M. Brethower, Terry Hluchyj, Jeri Ridings Nowakowski
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1983
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6667-3
Descript 128 p. online resource

SUMMARY

Please glance over the questions that follow and read the answers to those that are of interest. Q: What does this manual do? A: This manual guides the user through designing an evaluation. A: Who can use it? A: Anyone interested or involved in evaluating professional trammg or inservice education programs. The primary users will be staff members who are doing their own program evaluation-maybe for the first time. (Experienced evaluators or other professional educators can find useful guides and worksheets in it.) Q: If I work through this manual, what will I accomplish? A: You will develop one or more evaluation designs, and perhaps you'll also use the designs to evaluate something to make it better or to document its current value. Q: What is an evaluation design? A: An evaluation design is a conceptual and procedural map for getting important information about training efforts to people who can use it, as shown in the graphic below


CONTENT

Getting Started -- Products -- 1: Outline of Evaluation Questions -- 2: Outline of Evaluation Questions -- 3: Information Collection Plan -- 4: Analysis and Interpretation Plan -- 5: Report Plan -- 6: Management Plan -- 7: Plan to Evaluate the Evaluation -- Appendices -- A: Selecting What (an Object) to Evaluate -- B: An Example of an Evaluation Design -- C: Extra Worksheets


SUBJECT

  1. Education
  2. Assessment
  3. Education
  4. Assessment
  5. Testing and Evaluation
  6. Education
  7. general