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Download full textKing, Jean A.; Thompson, Bruce – 1981
This 23-item bibliography includes a glossary of key terms and summarizes major works on the use of program evaluation information. Summarized works include books, papers presented at professional meetings, and doctoral dissertations. The summaries are organized around a framework of themes: studies of evaluation utilization, practical discussions…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Information Utilization, Program Evaluation, Theories
Thompson, Bruce; King, Jean A. – 1981
The literature on program evaluation contains numerous suggestions that evaluative information is frequently underutilized or inappropriately utilized by administrators. This paper reviews the literature on utilization with a view toward identifying workable strategies for optimizing appropriate use. Specific recommendations to evaluators include…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evaluators, Information Utilization, Program Evaluation
Thompson, Bruce – 1981
The evaluation literature suggests that evaluation studies may be underutilized by policy makers. This possibility has stimulated a good deal of evaluation use research. However, most of the research has not been theoretically grounded. This paper reviews the key propositions of communications theory and related previous research, as they are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Evaluators, Information Utilization, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedKing, Jean A.; Thompson, Bruce – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
A survey of principals and superintendents from variously sized districts revealed that program evaluations were generally found useful (particularly by superintendents) but were judged by many principals to be incapable of measuring some important program effects. Administrators tended to interact infrequently with evaluators, placing primary…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization, Principals
Thompson, Bruce – Texas Tech Journal of Education, 1982
Principals from a large public school system recommended actions they would take after reading a conventional program evaluation report. Another group of principals made recommendations after reading a "confidence interval" report. Results indicated that the reporting form did influence decisions about a program's worth. (PP)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Eason, Sandra H.; Thompson, Bruce – 1989
The utilization of program evaluation may be made more effective by means of the application of contemporary persuasion theory. The Elaboration Likelihood Model--a model of cognitive processing, ability, and motivation--was used in this study to test the persuasive effects of source credibility and involvement on message acceptance of evaluation…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Credibility
