The Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) model identifies conditions under which evaluators intervene in educational programs, provides for a sequence of evaluation activities and conditions under which departures from this sequence occurs, and defines the relationship between the evaluator and the decision maker. This paper provides a study…

Describes four major types of evaluation: needs assessment, formative, implementation, and summative evaluation. Suggests the general categories of information that must be collected, analyzed, and interpreted, as illustrated by the example of the evaluation of staff development at a two-year college. (AYC)

Traditional methods of ethnographic data collection and analysis can be adapted to conducting summative evaluations of educational programs, particularly those for American Indians. Such evaluations can be approached from a micro-ethnographic standpoint (in which the school alone is studied as a subculture) or a macro-ethnographic standpoint (in…