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Peer reviewedHerrell, James M., Ed.; Straw, Roger B., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2002
The seven articles in this issue represent an approach to multisite evaluation that has much in common with the tradition of clinical trials. However, this approach shares with cluster evaluation an appreciation for the adjustments that are necessary to reflect the realities of conducting evaluation research in actual service settings. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedStufflebeam, Daniel L. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2001
This monograph identifies, analyzes, and judges 22 evaluation approaches used in program evaluation. Two approaches, labeled psuedoevaluations, are politically oriented and often used to misrepresent a program's value. The remaining 20, judged legitimate, are categorized by their orientations, and rated for their value. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Models, Political Influences
Peer reviewedHopson, Rodney K., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2000
The six chapters of this issue consider how language shapes the meaning of social policies and programs that are evaluated. Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these language issues and highlights the practical issues involved in language function in evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Usage, Policy Formation
Peer reviewedHenry, Gary T., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1997
This theme issue is an attempt to improve graphical production by evaluators. The graphs that are described are solutions to problems in communicating evaluation findings. Eleven chapters and a conclusion discuss common and recurring problems for graphs for discovery or presentation, and for evaluators or evaluation audiences. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Peer reviewedWisler, Carl, Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
The extent to which evaluation and auditing have converged on procedures in recent years and the extent to which they remain different are examined in the five chapters of this special issue. Different emphases, the question of collaboration with the subjects of inquiry, and issues of routinized performance are explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
Peer reviewedScheirer, Mary Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
This eight chapters of this special issue introduce the use of a template to specify program components as a new tool for program evaluation. The template articulates the components needed for program delivery and provides a systematic method for assessing program implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedFournier, Deborah M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1995
The seven chapters of this special issue explore problems in how to better understand the reasoning process that is used to establish evaluative conclusions. The many unanswered questions about reasoning should stimulate further investigation of the meaning of sound evaluative reasoning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHenry, Gary T., Ed.; Julnes, George, Ed.; Mark, Melvin M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1998
The five articles of this sourcebook, organized around the five-component framework for evaluation described by W. Shadish, T. Cook, and L. Leviton (1991), present a new theory of realist evaluation that captures the sensemaking contributions of postpositivism and the sensitivity to values from the constructivist traditions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Models
Peer reviewedPicciotto, Robert, Ed.; Rist, Ray C., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1995
This issue and its introductions, postscript, and 11 chapters deal with the special evaluation problems of programs in the developing world. Views of policymakers, practitioners, and evaluators on ways to evaluate development are presented. The collection offers a framework for debate and proposes new emphases for development evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMarquart, Jules M., Ed.; Konrad, Ellen L., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
The six chapters of this theme issue attempt to define conceptual and methodological issues in the evaluation of integrated services systems and to begin to synthesize some of these issues. An introduction to these evaluation issues is followed by case studies and a discussion of implications for program and policy development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Evaluation Methods, Integrated Services
Peer reviewedBraverman, Marc T., Ed.; Slater, Jana Kay, Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1996
The seven articles of this special issue focus on theory and research related to survey methods and whether evaluators need information that is absent from the larger survey literature. These articles reflect the view that the considerations relating to good survey research apply also to using surveys in evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Needs Assessment
