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Working Both Sides of the Street.
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Alkin, Marvin C.; Patton, Michael Quinn – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
The user-oriented and utilization-focused evaluation design of the two-year Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project, funded by Aid to International Development, is reviewed. The evaluation scope, stakeholders, evaluation team credibility, official approval of evaluation, and confidence in the evaluation process are addressed, within a…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
The Functions of Program Theory.
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Bickman, Leonard – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Ten functions of program theory are reviewed: contributing to social science knowledge; assisting policymakers, discriminating between theory failure and program failure, identifying the problem and target group, providing program implementation description, uncovering unintended effects, specifying intervening variables, improving formative use…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Models, Problem Solving
Client Concerns and Strategies in Evaluation Studies.
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Gunn, Walter J. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Strategies for use by clients who commission evaluation studies in the private, university, or governmental sector are outlined. Topics covered include establishing the purpose of the evaluation, assembling in-house management staff, specifying work and expertise requirements, establishing confidentiality and project control, and managing results.…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Contracts, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Stakeholder and Program Evaluation: Characterizations and Reflections.
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Gold, Norman – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Stakeholder-based studies modify the relationship between evaluator and user, producing conflict that can cause evaluators to regress to familiar, traditional patterns that leave interactive evaluation strategies only partially implemented. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Program Evaluation
The Stakeholder Approach to Evaluation: Origins and Promise.
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Weiss, Carol H. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
The promise of the stakeholder approach to evaluation lies in its potential to counter criticism that evaluation is too narrow, unrealistic in its standards for success, unfair to program staff and participants, and irrelevant to decision makers. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, History
Evaluation and Reform.
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Cohen, David K. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Critiquing the stakeholder idea, the author states: if government chooses to take account of competing views in social program evaluation, it can get a better result if it encourages the competing views to find a voice of their own, not to speak through the government's chosen instrument. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Stakeholder Influence in the Evaluation of Cities-in-Schools.
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Stake, Robert E. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Deliberately involving urban education stakeholders in the Cities-in-Schools evaluation study improved the utility of the findings for formative evaluation stakeholders but not for summative evaluation stakeholders. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
The Potential Contribution of Program Evaluation to Social Problem Solving: A View Based on the CIS and Push/Excel Experiences.
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Bryk, Anthony S.; Raudenbush, Stephen W. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Stakeholder evaluation was designed to address widely recognized problems in the conduct of evaluation. However, global propositions about the problems and prospects of program evaluation obscure the circumstances in which social science can contribute to social problem solving. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods