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Emergent Design: Understanding and Evolving Measures of a Family Support System.

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Thompson, Lyke; Herman, Sandra – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1996

This article provides a case study of the use of emergent design, which asks evaluators to adapt their inquiry processes as understanding develops, in the evaluation of a family support program, tracing the emergence of evaluation procedures through three phases. Two phases produced data that policymakers found very helpful. (SLD)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Family Programs

Special Feature: Epistemological Paradigms in Evaluation: Implications for Practice. Section 2: "Paradigm Conflict" Case Study. Experimental and Pragmatic Approaches to the Incidence of Adolescent Suicide.

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Kalafat, John; Neigher, William D. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991

Both pragmatic and experimental approaches to studying adolescent suicide are applied in this study of a suicide prevention curriculum for eleventh graders. Pragmatic and experimental paradigms were both of value in addressing needs of these students and in making general knowledge available. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Epistemology