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Ryan, Katherine E., Ed.; Schwandt, Thomas A., Ed. – 2002
In this collection, evaluation theorists and practitioners consider evaluator role and identity in evaluation theory, practice, and society. The chapters are: (1) "Three Frameworks for Considering Evaluator Role" (Jean A. King and Laurie Stevahn); (2) "Toward Better Understanding of Alternative Evaluator Roles" (Melvin M. Mark); (3) "Making (More)…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Peer reviewedSchwandt, Thomas A., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1998
The five chapters of this special issue provide insights into how Scandinavians understand evaluation practice. Although there is no "Scandinavian" perspective on evaluation, theory and practice in the Scandinavian countries unfold against sociocultural and intellectual influences that differ from those of the United States. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRyan, Alan G.; Baillie, Lynne E. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1997
Two articles present differing points of view on the evaluation of the development of a teacher education program. "Through the Looking Glass..." describes what happens when an evaluator becomes the evaluation client, and "Degrees of Strangeness" reports on the evaluator's findings and opinions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Program Development
Peer reviewedCarter, Janet; And Others – Evaluation Practice, 1992
Reasons tendered by a selected group of 31 professional philanthropic foundation staff for the limited use of evaluation of philanthropic grants are reviewed. Ways to increase evaluation use are reviewed. Formal, informal, internal, and external evaluations can be very valuable to a foundation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Peer reviewedMathison, Sandra, Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Five papers and an introduction discuss internal evaluation (IE), concentrating on the various sources of authority for IE and ways of enhancing IE authority. The roles of internal evaluators, conflicts in the evaluation process, and evaluation in a state education agency are reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Nentwig, Peter, Ed. – 1989
Easily accessible publications which report procedures and results of real evaluation studies of inservice teacher education are lacking. Therefore, this collection of case studies was initiated by the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) to provide some practical help for practitioners. The first section of the volume is a general…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textAlkin, Marvin; And Others – 1984
After outlining the 1984 activities and results of the Center for the Study of Evaluation's (CSE's) Evaluation Productivity Project, this monograph presents three reports. The first, "The Administrator's Role in Evaluation Use," by James Burry, Marvin C. Alkin, and Joan A. Ruskus, describes the factors influencing an evaluation's use…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
