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Msila, Vuyisile; Setlhako, Angeline – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Carol Weiss did much to enhance the role of evaluation in her writings. Her work shows evaluators what affects their roles as they evaluate programs. Furthermore, her theory of change spells out the complexities involved in program evaluation. There are various processes involved in the evaluation of programs. The paper looks at some of the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Research Methodology
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Scriven, Michael – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
In this paper, the author considers certain aspects of the problem of obtaining unbiased information about the merits of a program or product, whether for purposes of decision making or for accountability. The evaluation of personnel, as well as the evaluation of proposals and evaluations, generally involves a different set of problems than those…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Test Bias, Personnel Evaluation
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Stufflebeam, Daniel L. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Good evaluation requires that evaluation efforts themselves be evaluated. Many things can and often do go wrong in evaluation work. Accordingly, it is necessary to check evaluations for problems such as bias, technical error, administrative difficulties, and misuse. Such checks are needed both to improve ongoing evaluation activities and to assess…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Definitions
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Toal, Stacie A.; King, Jean A.; Johnson, Kelli; Lawrenz, Frances – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009
As the number of large federal programs increases, so, too, does the need for a more complete understanding of how to conduct evaluations of such complex programs. The research literature has documented the benefits of stakeholder participation in smaller-scale program evaluations. However, given the scope and diversity of projects in multi-site…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Federal Programs, Stakeholders
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House, Ernest R. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
Drug studies are often cited as the best exemplars of evaluation design. However, many of these studies are seriously biased in favor of positive findings for the drugs evaluated, even to the point where dangerous effects are hidden. In spite of using randomized designs and double blinding, drug companies have found ways of producing the results…
Descriptors: Integrity, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Experimenter Characteristics
Cozart, Sheryl Conrad; Gordon, Jenny; Gunzenhauser, Michael G.; McKinney, Monica B.; Petterson, Jean A. – Educational Foundations, 2003
In this paper, the authors depict performance ethnography as having multiple ethical dimensions and multiple implications for the relationships between the evaluator and program participants. They have found performance ethnography to be essentially an intimate form of representation that has tremendous implications for the ownership of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Research, Qualitative Research, Ethnography