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Nocera, Amato – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
This paper examines an "experimental" program in African American adult education that took place at the Harlem branch of the New York Public Library in the early 1930s. The program, called the Harlem Experiment, brought together a group of white funders (the Carnegie Corporation and the American Association for Adult Education)--who…
Descriptors: African American Education, Adult Education, Afrocentrism, Public Libraries
Hung, Hsin-Ling; Altschuld, James W.; Lee, Yi-Fang – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Training is critical for the growth of the evaluation profession as more qualified and competent individuals will be required to meet the increased demand for evaluation. This paper deals with the training needs of professionals and is based on a part of a study on the status and challenges of educational program evaluation in the Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Needs Assessment
Treiber, Jeanette; Kipke, Robin; Satterlund, Travis; Cassady, Diana – International Journal of Training and Development, 2013
Nearly all private, government and non-governmental organizations that receive government funding to run social or health promotion programs in the United States are required to conduct program evaluations and to report findings to the funding agency. Reports are usually due at the end of a funding cycle and they may or may not have an influence…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, State Government, Financial Support, State Aid
Hendricks, Michael; Bamberger, Michael – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Each year a great many evaluations are conducted of international development efforts around the world. These development evaluations study projects, programs, country-wide portfolios, policy reform efforts, and other topics of interest to funders, governments, program managers, and other involved stakeholders. Although some of these evaluations…
Descriptors: Program Development, Economic Development, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Brandon, Paul R.; Smith, Nick L.; Hwalek, Melanie – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
This article is third in a series of exemplary cases under the two current section editors. The first two cases (Brandon, Smith, Trenholm, & Devaney, 2010; Smith, Brandon, Lawton, & Krohn-Ching, 2010) profiled evaluations that had been designated as exemplary by professional associations. The present case profiles an evaluation organization:…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Professional Associations, Educational Practices
Sridharan, Sanjeev; De Silva, Soma – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
The papers in this dialogue help develop evaluation as a field (both in South Asia and other regions). What comes through in all of the papers is both humility of where evaluation is as a field and imagination and ambition of where evaluators could be in the near future. Reading the papers in this forum makes them enthusiastic about being…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Azzam, Tarek – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
A simulation study was conducted in an attempt to examine how evaluators modify their evaluation design in response to differing stakeholder groups. In this study, evaluators were provided with a fictitious description of a school-based program. They were then asked to design an evaluation of the program. After the evaluation design decisions were…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Simulation
Brandon, Paul R.; Smith, Nick L.; Grob, George F. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
In 1997, American Evaluation Association member George Grob, now retired from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and currently President of the Center for Public Program Evaluation, made a testimony on Medicare home health care fraud and abuse before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. The occasion was to announce the…
Descriptors: Human Services, Evaluators, Investigations, Program Evaluation
Chong, Jenny; Hassin, Jeanette; Young, Robert S.; Joe, Jennie R. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Two case studies are presented to compare and contrast the challenges encountered when attempting to conduct participatory evaluations (P-Es) with tribal programs that represented two extremes of collaboration between the programs and evaluators. In one case, the P-E was successful because the principals were invested in the program, whereas in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Substance Abuse, American Indian Reservations, Federal Programs
Bitterman, Sheila – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many investigators have documented the need for valid and credible program evaluation research of teacher professional development programs. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive program evaluation of the Lincoln School District's Teacher Collaboration Time (TCT) staff development program. The study questions…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Teacher Collaboration, Social Change
Loi, Claudia X. Aguado; McDermott, Robert J. – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
Conducting evaluations that are both valid and ethical is imperative for the support and sustainability of programs that address underserved and vulnerable populations. A key component is to have evaluators who are knowledgeable about relevant cultural issues and sensitive to population needs. Hispanics in rural settings are vulnerable for many…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Agricultural Laborers, Rural Areas
Baizerman, Michael; Compton, Donald W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Here the essentials of the expertise of managing are presented as orientation toward (ethos, stance, and gaze), knowledge about, and knowledge how-to ("know-how"). These are grounded to specific content, summarized, and then connected to a typology of managing evaluation. The orienting questions for the field are reviewed to reveal what it means…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Career Development, Program Evaluation, Organizational Theories
DeLuca, Christopher; Poth, Cheryl; Searle, Michelle – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
Using a cross-case analysis of three distinct participatory program evaluations, this paper contributes to current discourse on how evaluators create opportunities for learning. Although each team of evaluators intended to promote planned process use, post-evaluation discussions amongst them identified evidence where use emerged throughout the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Discourse Analysis, Organizational Change, Faculty Development
Lambur, Michael T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
This chapter explores how the structure of large complex organizations such as Cooperative Extension affects their ability to support internal evaluation of their programs and activities. Following a literature review of organizational structure and its relation to internal evaluation capacity, the chapter presents the results of interviews with…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Extension Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Braverman, Marc T.; Arnold, Mary E. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
Methodological rigor consists of a series of elements that, in combination, determine the confidence with which conclusions can be drawn from the evaluation results. These elements include evaluation design, conceptualization of constructs, measurement strategies, time frames, program integrity, and others. The authors examine the factors that…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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