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Participatory Training Evaluation Method (PATEM) as a Collaborative Evaluation Capacity Building Strategy
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Kuzmin, Alexey – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
This article describes Participatory Training Evaluation Method (PATEM) of measuring participants' reaction to the training. PATEM provides rich information; allows to document evaluation findings; becomes organic part of the training that helps participants process their experience individually and as a group; makes sense to participants; is an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Group Activities, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation
Lessons Learned about Collaborative Evaluation Using the Capacity for Applying Project Evaluation (CAPE) Framework with School and District Leaders
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Corn, Jenifer O.; Byrom, Elizabeth; Knestis, Kirk; Matzen, Nita; Thrift, Beth – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Schools, districts, and state-level educational organizations are experiencing a great shift in the way they do the business of education. This shift focuses on accountability, specifically through the expectation of the effective utilization of evaluative-focused efforts to guide and support decisions about educational program implementation. In…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evaluators, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation
Expert Panel Reviews of Research Centers: The Site Visit Process
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Lawrenz, Frances; Thao, Mao; Johnson, Kelli – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Site visits are used extensively in a variety of settings within the evaluation community. They are especially common in making summative value decisions about the quality and worth of research programs/centers. However, there has been little empirical research and guidance about how to appropriately conduct evaluative site visits of research…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Universities, Federal Programs, Evaluation
Working with Evaluation Stakeholders: A Rationale, Step-Wise Approach and Toolkit
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Bryson, John M.; Patton, Michael Quinn; Bowman, Ruth A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
In the broad field of evaluation, the importance of stakeholders is often acknowledged and different categories of stakeholders are identified. Far less frequent is careful attention to analysis of stakeholders' interests, needs, concerns, power, priorities, and perspectives and subsequent application of that knowledge to the design of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation, Stakeholders, Interests
Collaborative Evaluation within a Framework of Stakeholder-Oriented Evaluation Approaches
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O'Sullivan, Rita G. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Collaborative Evaluation systematically invites and engages stakeholders in program evaluation planning and implementation. Unlike "distanced" evaluation approaches, which reject stakeholder participation as evaluation team members, Collaborative Evaluation assumes that active, on-going engagement between evaluators and program staff,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
The Evaluation Profession in Pursuit of Value.
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Sheinfeld, Sherri Nita – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
Six values useful for judging the ethical problems in program evaluation are: (1) distributive justice; (2) truth seeking; (3) human dignity; (4) sharing; (5) concern for the quality of life, and (6) client loyalty. This is a comment on TM 503 780. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Ethics, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Moral Values
Ethical Problems in Program Evaluation: Roles, Not Models.
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Sieber, Joan E.; Sanders, Nancy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
The evaluator must begin with a clear understanding of roles, issues, and risks in order to minimize the pressures and occurrence of ethical conflicts in program evaluation. A list of such issues is included in this review of TM 503 780. (CTM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Contracts, Ethics, Evaluation