Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-12-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90005-2
Jennifer C. Greene
{"title":"Evaluation as advocacy","authors":"Jennifer C. Greene","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90005-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90005-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The argument advanced in this article is that advocacy in evaluation is inevitable. This is so when advocacy is understood not as program partisanship or contaminating bias, but rather as a value commitment to a particular regulative ideal (of rational decision making, interpretive meaning, community activism). The regulative ideal for evaluation advanced in this discussion is a commitment to democratic pluralism. These ideas are illustrated and substantiated with three case examples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 1","pages":"Pages 25-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90005-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71734245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-12-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90008-8
Herbert J. Walberg , Daoxin Lu, Richard P. Niemiec, Herbert J. Walberg III
{"title":"A technique for objective analysis of qualitative evaluation data","authors":"Herbert J. Walberg , Daoxin Lu, Richard P. Niemiec, Herbert J. Walberg III","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90008-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90008-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Analysis of qualitative—usually verbal—information from interview transcripts, field notes, and other sources has required huge amounts of labor. Some critics, moreover, maintain that such analysis is less than reliable, objective and tabula rasa. A new computer program, however, allows precisely repeatable analysis without a priori frameworks and without tedious and subjective categorizing of passages. The program finds repetitive association of words or ideas that characterize the verbal research corpus which evaluators may display and interpret. This article explains the program and illustrates its use in an evaluation of a collaborative botanic education project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 1","pages":"Pages 55-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90008-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71734240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-09-01Epub Date: 2003-04-25DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90026-X
Blaine R. Worthen (Editor)
{"title":"The American journal of evaluation","authors":"Blaine R. Worthen (Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90026-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90026-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 3","pages":"Pages vii-xiii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90026-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71777552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-09-01Epub Date: 2003-04-25DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90028-3
Hallie Preskill , Valerie Caracelli
{"title":"Current and developing conceptions of use: Evaluation use TIG survey results","authors":"Hallie Preskill , Valerie Caracelli","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90028-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90028-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article presents the results of a survey sent to Evaluation Use Topical Interest Group (TIG) members for the purpose of ascertaining their perceptions about and experiences with evaluation use. Fifty-four percent (<em>n</em> = 282) of the 530 members surveyed responded. These respondents agree that the major purposes of evaluation are to facilitate organizational learning, provide information for decision making, improve programs, and determine the merit or worth of the evaluand. Performance-results oriented evaluations, formative evaluations, as well as evaluations with a participatory emphasis, organizational learning emphasis, and practitioner-centered action research or empowerment approaches were all viewed as more important today than they were 10 years ago. Survey findings revealed that the most important strategies for facilitating use are planning for use at the beginning of an evaluation, edentifying and prioritizing intended users and intended uses of the evaluation, designing the evaluation within resource limitations, involving stakeholders in the evaluation process, communicating findings to stakeholders as the evaluation progresses, and developing a communication and reporting plan. This survey represents a comprehensive effort to understand TIG respondents' views on evaluation use and should help further discussion on developing and advancing our theoretical and practical knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 3","pages":"Pages 209-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90028-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71823236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-09-01Epub Date: 2003-04-25DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90029-5
Mark Waysman , Riki Savaya
{"title":"Mixed method evaluation: A case study","authors":"Mark Waysman , Riki Savaya","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90029-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90029-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While there is growing interest in employing mixed methods in evaluation research, there are few documented examples describing how to implement this in practice. This article describes the use of a mixed method approach to evaluate a nonprofit agency that provides organizational consultation and other support services to nonprofit organizations in Israel. It uses conceptualizations proposed by Greene, Caracelli, and Graham (1989) and by Rossman and Wilson (1994) to discuss the unique benefits of such methodology and also addresses the limitations and disadvantages of mixed method evaluation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 3","pages":"Pages 227-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90029-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71823235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-09-01Epub Date: 2003-04-25DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90039-8
Shirley Copeland
{"title":"Corporate training for effective performance","authors":"Shirley Copeland","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90039-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90039-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 3","pages":"Pages 283-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90039-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71777555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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