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Talking Back to Data: Comments on a Framework for Data Use
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Perkins, Aminah; Engelhard, George, Jr. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Coburn and Turner (this issue) present an intriguing framework for understanding how data has come to be used in the current high accountability environments in education. In this framework, they connect various processes of data use within organizational and political contexts. Data use is presented using an ecological perspective that deepens…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Quality, Evaluation Utilization, Research Utilization
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 Stakeholder Approach to Evaluation: Origins and Promise.
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Weiss, Carol H. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
The promise of the stakeholder approach to evaluation lies in its potential to counter criticism that evaluation is too narrow, unrealistic in its standards for success, unfair to program staff and participants, and irrelevant to decision makers. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, History
Evaluation and Reform.
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Cohen, David K. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Critiquing the stakeholder idea, the author states: if government chooses to take account of competing views in social program evaluation, it can get a better result if it encourages the competing views to find a voice of their own, not to speak through the government's chosen instrument. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
What Have We Learned about the Politics of Program Evaluation?
Chelimsky, Eleanor – 1986
The politics of program evaluation are discussed from the personal perspective of the Director of the General Accounting Office's Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, which has produced reports for committees of the United States Congress. It is concluded that successful evaluations must be useful to others and must understand the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, 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
Designing the National Assessment of Educational Progress to Serve a Wider Community of Users: A Position Paper.
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Bock, R. Darrell – 1986
Efforts have been made to increase the dissemination and use of data generated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Potential users include those concerned with curriculum and methods evaluation, public policymakers, and researchers. NAEP can provide data for curriculum evaluation, including item analysis data which assist in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Testing