Name: Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation von Robert E. Stake
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Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation Robert E. Stake

Written by a master writer and evaluator, this text explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make--from attention to stakeholders, to weighing ethical risks, to writing a useful report--when doing an evaluation. The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or, qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. Throughout the book, the author presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader. He leads audiences to consider whether they would prefer to remain independent as evaluators or to join with a staff and/or stakeholders connected to the program; to aid in development formatively or to assess the whole program summatively; to invest minimally or largely in trying out and validating data gathering procedures; and how much to support professional associations, their standards, and ethics. After reading the book, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation.

Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation Bewertungen

We can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will want to have in their personal library. It tells us a lot about our field, highlights contrasting ways of evaluating without pitting one against the other, and manages to remind us why many of us chose this line of work in the first place. -- EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING

Über Robert E. Stake

Professor Stake received his B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in naval science and Spanish from the University of Nebraska in 1950. He graduated with an M.A. in educational psychology in 1954 from this university. In 1958, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University. From 1955 to 1958, he was a Psychometric Fellow at the Educational Testing Service. Then, an Associate Professor and Faculty Research Coordinator of the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In 1963, he arrived at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he assisted Thomas Hastings, Lee Cronbach, and Jack Easley in the creation of the new evaluation center, CIRCE, and in developing a program of research on program evaluation. He also became the Associate Director of the Statewide High School Testing Program. In 1975, he became director of CIRCE. He has been active in the program evaluation profession and has promoted an approach to evaluation methods called "responsive evaluation." He took up a qualitative perspective, particularly case study methods, in order to represent the personal experience and complexity of evaluation study. He received the Lazerfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

First Words 1. Criterial and Interpretive Evaluation The Ubiquitous Search For Quality Standards Criterial and Episodic Thinking Roles and Styles of Evaluation Formative and Summative Evaluation The Evaluand The Evaluator 2. Roles, Models, and Dispositions Models Dispositions Roles 3. Standards-Based Evaluation Standards-Based Bias Factors Criteria and Standards for Comparisons Needs Assessment Goals Costs Representations of Performance What Goes Wrong 4. Responsive Evaluation Issues as Conceptual Structure Observations and Judgments Perceptions Combining Responsive and Standards-Based Evaluation Experience as Knowledge Organizing and Reporting Procedures What Goes Wrong 5. Data Gathering Choosing Data Sources Instrumentation Recipient Responses Staff and Management Responses Stakeholder and Public Responses Data Coding and Records Processing Surveys Observation Schedules Interviewing Histories and Artifacts 6. Analysis, Synthesis, and Meta-evaluation Analysis Synthesis Experiential and Probative Inferences Meta-evaluation An Ethic of Continuous Self-Challenge 7.Clients, Stakeholders, Beneficiaries and Readers Participatory Evaluation Stakeholding Utilization Democratic Evaluation Negotiation of a Contract Writing Reports Styles of Reporting Representations of the Evaluand Names and Labels Cutting Edge Offering Recommendations 8. Issues Needing Interpretation Complexity Program Standardization Program Fairness Staff Development 9. Evidence-Based Evaluation Is Evaluation Science? Petite and Grand Generalizations Policy Evaluation Bias Skepticism as a Commitment 10. Doing It Right Quality Work Is Ethical Work Personal Standards Professional Standards Human Subjects Protection Confidentiality and Anonymity The Business of Evaluation Personnel Evaluation Product Evaluation Political and Cultural Contexts Last Words References Bibliography Index About the Author

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Sku

GOR007858353

ISBN 13

9780761926658

ISBN 10

0761926658

Titel

Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation Robert E. Stake

Autor

Robert E. Stake

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

SAGE Publications Inc

Datum

2003-12-11

Anzahl der Seiten

368

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