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This book looks back at the origins of program evaluation. By summarizing, comparing, and contrasting the work of seven major theorists of program evaluation, it provides an important perspective on the current state of evaluation theory and provides suggestions for improving its practice.
This book offers a straightforward, practical introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. It shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, using an original framework. The authors examine the role of evaluation in program development, and offer techniques for involving stakeholders in the planning process and for disseminating the evaluation findings. They use references to recent research and international examples.
These readings offer critical guidance in the development of assessment instruments for gifted programs.
This book will improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by the program director in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator.
In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Federal Program Evaluation. The workshop was organized to consider ways to bolster the integrity and protect the objectivity of the evaluation function in federal agenciesâ€"a process that is essential for evidence-based policy making. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
The objective of this book is to acquaint the reader with the ways in which evaluation results can be made more credible through careful choice of a design prescribing when and from whom, the data will be gathered. The book helps the reader choose a design, put it into operation and analyze and report the data that has been gathered.