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Peer reviewedBickman, 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
Direct linkHenry, Gary T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2005
The author presents a proposal that is roughly based on a contingency-based theory of evaluation developed in his book, "Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs" (Mark, Henry, and Julnes, 2000). He and his coauthors stated in this book that social betterment was the ultimate goal of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Models, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedBlumberg, Phyllis; Deveau, Eleanor J. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1995
A new outcome-oriented, utilization-focused approach to program evaluation is introduced. The new framework encourages stakeholders to consider academic dissemination, product development, and implementation as three primary outcomes when evaluating educational and clinical approaches. Secondary outcomes focus on education, clinical service, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Graduate Medical Students
Trochim, William M. K.; Linton, Rhoda – 1984
Both evaluation and planning typically begin with an attempt to define the conceptual territory of interest; this paper presents an approach to such conceptualization. The term, structured conceptualization, is used to refer to any definable set of procedures which can help a user develop a useful conceptual representation. Structured…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Cluster Grouping, Concept Formation, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textCowart, Susan Cooper – 1989
In July 1989, the members of Project Cooperation, 10 community colleges that had been invited to serve as demonstration sites for research on institutional effectiveness, were brought together for the second national colloquium on institutional effectiveness through outcomes measures. This report contains the presentations made at the colloquium…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, College Students, Community Colleges
Jones, Paul L.; Petry, John R. – 1985
An assessment model was developed to produce change in adult basic education (ABE) programs and thereby improve learning for adult students. During the development of the model, 89 ABE programs were analyzed. To determine the effect that ABE has on the quality of life of its students, researchers observed 77 of the 89 programs included in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Classroom Research, Educational Assessment
