Author | Payne, David A. author |
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Title | Designing Educational Project and Program Evaluations [electronic resource] : A Practical Overview Based on Research and Experience / by David A. Payne |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1376-2 |
Descript | XVIII, 258 p. online resource |
1. Educational Evaluation: Definitions, Purposes, and Processes -- The Nature of Project and Program Evaluation -- The Roles of Evaluation -- Evaluation Is Not Research -- Activities in the Evaluation Process -- Evaluation Truisms -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 2. Criteria for Effective and Ethical Evaluation Practice -- The Place of Values -- The Importance of Ethics -- Professional Standards and Metaevaluation -- An Example Lesson from the Standards -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 3. Evaluation Goals, Objectives, and Questions -- Identifying and Involving Stakeholders -- Kinds of Evaluation Questions -- Levels of Specificity in Educational Outcomes -- Program Development and Evaluation Questions -- Developing Evaluation Questions -- Standard Setting -- Evaluation Questions and the Utilization of Results -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 4. Evaluation Metaphors -- The Nature of Metaphors in Education and Evaluation -- The Management Evaluation Metaphor -- An Illustration of a CIPP Evaluation: Evaluating a Gifted and Talented Program -- The Judicial Metaphor -- The Anthropological Metaphor -- An Attempt at Responsive Evaluation: Evaluating a Teacher Evaluation System -- The Consumer Metaphor -- Metaphor Selection: In Praise of Eclecticism -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 5. Quantitatively Oriented Data Collection Designs -- Factors Affecting Evaluation Design Decisions -- Elements of a Data Collection Design -- The Validity of Data Collection Designs -- Data Collection Designs -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 6. Qualitative and Ethnographic Evaluation -- A Rationale for Interpretive Inquiry -- Qualitative Design Issues -- Data Collection Methods -- Data Analysis -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 7. Creating and Selecting Instrumentation -- Characteristics of High-Quality Data -- Types of Measures -- Opinionnaire and Free-Response Methods -- Observation Methods -- Approaches to the Assessment of Affective Variables -- Authentic Assessment -- Locating Information About Measuring Devices -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 8. Managing Evaluations -- The Role of the Evaluator -- Planning Considerations -- Legal Considerations -- Cost Considerations -- Decision Making -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 9. Communicating and Using Evaluation Results -- A Rationale for Reporting -- Report Preparation -- Factors Related to Utilization of Evaluation Results -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- 10. Evaluating Educational Materials -- Criteria for Evaluating Educational Materials -- Evaluating Instructional Text -- Evaluating Computer Educational Software -- Cogitations -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Appendices -- A. Multiple Criterion Measures for Evaluation of School Programs -- B. Contract for Professional Services -- Contract for Educational Program Audit -- Name Index