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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
From Policy to Practice: A Program Logic Approach to Describing the Implementation of Early Intervention Services for Children with Physical Disability
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Ziviani, Jenny; Darlington, Yvonne; Feeney, Rachel; Head, Brian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The benefits of providing early intervention services (including multidisciplinary therapy and family support) for children with physical disabilities and their families are widely acknowledged. Evidence, however, of their efficacy is not well documented. Furthermore, many studies fail to adequately describe the programs being evaluated and how…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Early Intervention, Physical Disabilities, Family Programs
Collaborative Evaluation of a High School Prevention Curriculum: How Methods of Collaborative Evaluation Enhanced a Randomized Control Trial to Inform Program Improvement
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Orsini, Muhsin Michael; Wyrick, David L.; Milroy, Jeffrey J. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Blending high-quality and rigorous research with pure evaluation practice can often be best accomplished through thoughtful collaboration. The evaluation of a high school drug prevention program (All Stars Senior) is an example of how perceived competing purposes and methodologies can coexist to investigate formative and summative outcome…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Prevention
Evaluators as Change Agents: The Case of a Foreign Assistance Project in Morocco.
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Thompson, Randal Joy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
Using a case study approach, it is argued that evaluators play a critical role as change agents in foreign assistance projects directed at building Third World organizations. Evaluators affect stakeholder issues, commitment to project objectives, judgments of project accomplishments, consensus among project implementors, and perspective of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Developing Nations, Evaluators
Facilitating Commitment, Consensus, Credibility, and Visibility through Collaborative Foreign Assistance Project Evaluations.
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Thompson, Randal Joy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Four key entities participating in foreign assistance projects are (1) donors; (2) technical advisors; (3) host country counterparts; and (4) beneficiaries. Resistance to collaborative evaluation that each may exhibit is discussed, along with ways evaluators can overcome resistance and enhance evaluation outcomes, credibility, and utilization.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Credibility, Developing Nations, Donors