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Download full textTrenta, Louis S. – 1999
This paper considers the setting of evaluation from the perspective of the situations and stages of problem solving in which institutional leaders might call for the assistance of evaluators. This discussion should provide evaluators with a framework to understand and adjust their interactions with the environmental context of the evaluation. R.…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Peer reviewedWholey, Joseph S. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive technique that can be used to determine the extent to which different problems inhibit program evaluation. It involves policymakers, managers, and staff in developing program theory, clarifying intended uses of evaluation information, and planning further evaluations that would stimulate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Measurement Techniques
Hunsaker, Scott L. – 1992
Program design can aid problem-solving or decision-making tasks faced by evaluators. It can be used to facilitate evaluation planning through the definition of program boundaries and the generation and focusing of evaluation questions. Further, it can provide evaluation information about theoretical, historical, and political contexts of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Peer reviewedRudd, Rima E.; And Others – Evaluation Practice, 1993
Events that brought independent evaluators together to address common problems and issues in the area of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education are described, focusing on development and accomplishments of the collaboration. The foundation stemmed from the funding agency's insistence that each program identify an evaluator. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Cooperation, Disease Control, Evaluation Problems
Peer reviewedEash, Maurice J. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
Evaluation research is no longer taught solely as a technical-scientific pursuit, but is now moving toward a policy-oriented discipline. Psychological skills in a political context can strengthen technical contributions of evaluators. (LMO)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Kennedy, Mary M. – 1982
Qualitive data from interviews with individuals and observations of group meetings were gathered from 16 school districts that participated in a study of school district uses of evaluation and test data. The findings are organized around a series of discrete topics presented in a set of independent papers. The title essay, "Working Knowledge,"…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Analysis, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedShapiro, Jonathan Z. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
The author advances the argument that evaluation is unique not in purpose, but in environment. The evaluator operates within ethical, organizational, and political contexts in order to achieve utilization of a context-responsive evaluation. (LMO)
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Decision Making, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
