Evaluation practicePub Date : 1997-03-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90023-4
Juan A. Martinez
{"title":"Race and ethnicity in research methods","authors":"Juan A. Martinez","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90023-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90023-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 181-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90023-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56198956","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 : 1997-03-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90020-9
Michael Scriven
{"title":"Empowerment evaluation examined","authors":"Michael Scriven","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90020-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90020-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is suggested that there are some serious problems with defining the concept of empowerment evaluation, with its underlying assumptions, and with its proposed justification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 165-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90020-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71773968","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 : 1997-03-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90019-2
Michael Quinn Patton
{"title":"Toward distinguishing empowerment evaluation and placing it in a larger context","authors":"Michael Quinn Patton","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90019-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90019-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda. However, empowerment evaluation overlaps participatory, collaborative, stakeholder-involving, and utilization-focused approaches to evaluation in its concern for such issues as ownership, relevance, understandability, access, involvement, improvement, and capacity-building. A critical question becomes how to distinguish empowerment evaluation from these other approaches. Making such distinctions has become critical as the field debates the boundaries and implications of empowerment evaluation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 147-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90019-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71784794","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 : 1997-03-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90014-3
Blaine R. Worthen (Editor)
{"title":"Efforts to clarify some important evaluation concepts and practices","authors":"Blaine R. Worthen (Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90014-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90014-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages vii-xii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(97)90014-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56198737","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 : 1996-12-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90047-1
Fred R.J. Detwiler
{"title":"Reliability for the social sciences: Theory and applications","authors":"Fred R.J. Detwiler","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90047-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90047-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"17 1","pages":"Pages 97-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90047-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56198282","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 : 1996-12-01Epub Date: 2002-09-23DOI: 10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90038-0
Jeffrey A. Morzinski, James C. Fisher
{"title":"An evaluation of formal mentoring studies and a model for their improvement","authors":"Jeffrey A. Morzinski, James C. Fisher","doi":"10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90038-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90038-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>New employees often learn an organization's unwritten rules— the “ropes”—through one-on-one relationships with workplace colleagues or mentors. Increasingly, organizations are implementing mentoring programs to foster supportive work relationships—and evaluators are being called on to assess them. This paper presents a systematic literature review of mentoring-type program evaluations and reveals wide gaps in what published studies report. The complex and long-term nature of mentoring programs presents unique challenges to evaluators. To meet these challenges we suggest an evaluation model that attends to local audience needs and addresses four evaluation stages: (1) context evaluation, for assessing needs, objectives and organizational support; (2) design evaluation, to assess mentor and protege characteristics, the process for pairing the mentor and protege, the program duration, activities and recognition/rewards for participants; (3) implementation stage evaluation, to monitor activities, feedback and revisions; and (4) product evaluation, to assess systematically the planned and unplanned outcomes that consist of program reactions, learning, behavior change, and impact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84713,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation practice","volume":"17 1","pages":"Pages 43-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0886-1633(96)90038-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71783710","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}