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Advances in Collaborative Evaluation
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Rodriguez-Campos, Liliana – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Collaborative evaluation is an approach that offers, among others, many advantages in terms of access to information, quality of information gathered, opportunities for creative problem-solving, and receptivity to findings. In the last decade, collaborative evaluation has grown in popularity along with similar participatory, empowerment, and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Access to Information, Evaluation, Problem Solving
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
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
Evaluation: Manifestations of a New Field
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Flaherty, Eugenie W.; Morrell, Jonathan A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
The history and current state of evaluation are examined for evidence of growth and integration. Causes for its recent growth and current practices are discussed; there are signs of both cohesiveness and immaturity in the field. Available from: Pergamon Press, Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Development, Evaluation, Evaluators, History
Toward Overcoming Problems in Evaluation Research: A Beginning Perspective on Power.
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Ostrander, Susan A.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
An information feedback model and an ideology of evaluation are posed and contrasted with experiences in evaluation research. Impact on policy is the criterion for success of an evaluation and political constraints block this impact. Some ways social researchers might conceptualize and construct an appropriate base of power are considered.…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Feedback, Grants, Individual Power
An Examination of the Place of Formal Recommendations in Naturalistic Evaluations.
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Ryan, Alan G. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
The status of formal recommendations is different in the naturalistic evaluation model than in the traditional empirical model. The evaluation of a high school peer support program for alcohol abuse prevention illustrates that reader-generated recommendations may have more usefulness and impact than do evaluator-generated ideas. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators