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Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications
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Stufflebeam, Daniel L.; Shinkfield, Anthony J. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
"Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications" is designed for evaluators and students who need to develop a commanding knowledge of the evaluation field: its history, theory and standards, models and approaches, procedures, and inclusion of personnel as well as program evaluation. This important book shows how to choose from a growing…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Standards, Glossaries
An Assessment of the 1983 "Biennial Survey."
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McClure, Charles R. – Government Information Quarterly, 1985
Assesses the value of the Government Printing Office's 1983 "Biennial Survey" as a tool to support depository library planning and decision making. The survey data are evaluated in terms of reliability, validity, and utility, and recommendations are offered for improving the design, administration, and analysis of the survey. (CLB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Depository Libraries
The Survey Handbook. The Survey Kit, Volume 1.
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
How To Design Surveys. The Survey Kit, Volume 5.
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
How To Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys. The Survey Kit, Volume 3.
Bourque, Linda B.; Fielder, Eve P. – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
A Design for Evaluating and Reporting the Effectiveness of a School System Developed Mathematics Curriculum.
Dangel, Timothy R. – 1986
This paper reports the process by which Anne Arundel County Public Schools evaluated its mathematics program. The steps are outlined by which the evaluation was initiated, designed, implemented, and reported. The procedures developed to address and implement the evaluation findings and recommendations are described. The evaluation was intitiated…
Descriptors: Consultants, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
How To Conduct Interviews by Telephone and In Person. The Survey Kit, Volume 4.
Frey, James H.; Oishi, Sabine Mertens – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Eligibility
How To Analyze Survey Data. The Survey Kit, Volume 8.
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
Investigation into the Use of Time in Program Evaluation at a School District's Department of Research and Evaluation.
Lewis, Mary E. – 1985
Use of time was investigated in program evaluations conducted by a school system's department of research and evaluation. All evaluation designs developed in the department's bureaus for the 1983-84 school year were examined, and key staff coordinating each evaluation bureau were interviewed. How time was scheduled in each design, and then how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Organizational Communication
Evaluation Utilization: A Review of the Literature with Implications for Gifted Education.
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Tomlinson, Carol; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1993
This review offers a general theory of utilization of educational evaluation and considers factors affecting utilization, including evaluation context factors and evaluator-controlled factors. Special challenges in evaluating programs for gifted students and design shortcomings common in evaluation of such programs are identified. Specific…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
How To Ask Survey Questions. The Survey Kit, Volume 2.
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Evaluation Research and Program Evaluation Retrospect and Prospect: A Reformulation of the Role of the Evaluator.
Eash, Maurice J. – 1985
This essay focuses on a key change that the author has experienced in the practice of program evaluation research over the past 20 years: the accommodation of the logic of science and the psychology of politics. This change has substantially altered the role of the evaluator, the evaluator's relationship with clients, the design of an evaluation…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
How To Measure Survey Reliability and Validity. The Survey Kit, Volume 7.
Litwin, Mark S. – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
How To Sample in Surveys. The Survey Kit, Volume 6.
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Error of Measurement