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Evaluation Standards: Comments from Israel.
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Lewy, Arieh – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
The lack of overriding rationale and theoretical anchors in "Standards for the Evaluation of Educational Programs, Projects and Materials" creates difficulties when adapting the standards to local situations. The limitations of the book's treatment of ethical considerations, evaluation, utilization, and research management procedures for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Evaluation Methods
Reconsideration of Accountability and Control in Human Service Delivery Organizations: A Response to Ginsberg.
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Covaleski, Mark A.; Dirsmith, Mark W. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
By demystifying traditional rational accounting perspectives, the work of Ginsberg (TM 508 964) offers a basis to develop notions of accountability in relation to meaningful work processes. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Accountants, Accounting, Evaluation Methods
The Tellado Case Study Exercise: A Metacritique.
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Fleischer, Mitchell – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
Two main themes are found in the previous critiques (TM 510 180, TM 510 181, and TM 510 182) of the Tellado evaluation (TM 510 179): that Tellado lacked a clear audience for his evaluation and that he lacked an appropriate change orientation. A major problem with utilization-focused and stakeholder-based approaches to evaluation is revealed.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Junior High Schools
The Dysfunctional Side Effects of Quantitative Indicator Production: Illustration from Mental Health Care (A Message from Chicken Little.)
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Ginsberg, Pauline E. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
Premature application of quantitative indicators formerly used for individual assessment and research to bureaucratic decision making can produce side effects that are dysfunctional in nature. In order to illustrate this phenomenon, the author reviews a general literature and utilizes examples form mental health care. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
The Foibles of Bureaucratic Control: A Response to Ginsberg.
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Gamble, Thomas J. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
Based on his experience as a youth planner, the author points out that the dysfunctional side effects of evaluation described by Ginsberg (TM 508 964) also apply to statewide efforts to deinstitutionalize status offenders. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Delinquency Prevention, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Reflections on Ginsberg's Paper.
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Olson, Lynn M.; Gordon, Andrew C. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
Using a Maternal and Child Health clinic as an example, the social context of record production is stressed. The interorganizational context of the clinic, and its influence on the clinic's record production, illustrate Ginsberg's (TM 508 964) dysfunctional side effects on quantitative indicator production. (BW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Records, Clinics, Evaluation Methods
An Alternative Evaluation Approach for the Problem-Solving Training Program: A Utilization-Focused Evaluation Process.
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Patton, Michael Quinn – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
A utilization-focused approach in evaluating a problem-solving skills training program (see TM 510 179) would have placed more emphasis on identifying evaluation users, their information needs, and likely use of findings. Other methods options are also discussed, along with how to prepare decision makers for utilization. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Junior High Schools
The Case Study Evaluation: A Means for Managing Organizational and Political Tensions.
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Marshall, Catherine – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
This study of evaluation utilization identified organizational, political, and practical arrangements facilitating the wide use of "The Interim Report Evaluation" in policymaking for California's Early Childhood Education Program. In a program fraught by tensions, where evaluations had been political tools, this evaluation was special.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods