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Step Arounds for Common Pitfalls When Valuing Resources Used versus Resources Produced
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Yates, Brian T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2012
The value of a program can be understood as referring not only to outcomes, but also to how those outcomes compare to the types and amounts of resources expended to produce the outcomes. Major potential mistakes and biases in assessing the worth of resources consumed, as well as the value of outcomes produced, are explored. Most of these occur…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems
What Did We Learn from the Case Studies about Managing Evaluation?
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Baizerman, Michael; Compton, Donald W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Case studies about managing evaluation are examined for perspectives on expertise in managing evaluation. There are lessons on a geography of managing, managing as organizational work, the notions of "competency" and "expertise," and managing evaluation as professional work. Dreyfus and Dreyfus (2004) offer a framework for an introductory…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expertise, Program Evaluation, Administrative Principles
Predicament and Promise: The Internal Evaluator as Ethical Leader
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Schweigert, Francis J. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
Internal evaluators encounter risks but also significant opportunities to strengthen organizational and professional ethics. Potential contributions depend, in part, on the conjunction of ethics and evaluation in the role of the internal evaluator as the person specially commissioned to investigate value and render judgment based on evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Risk, Ethics, Guidelines
Deepening Understanding of Managing Evaluation
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Baizerman, Michael – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Depth, resonance, and shadow are added to how the expertise of managing evaluation could be grasped and understood. Returning to the notion of "competency" (Stevahn, King, Ghere, & Minnema, 2005), this is contrasted more deeply with Dreyfus and Dreyfus's (2004) conception of expert and to its use in nursing by Benner (2004; Benner, Tanner, &…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Organizational Theories, Expertise
Managing Evaluation in a Federal Public Health Setting
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Schooley, Michael W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
The author, a federal manager who leads development and maintenance of evaluation for specific public health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tells the story of developing an evaluation unit in the Office on Smoking and Health. Lessons about managing evaluation, including his practices and related principles, are…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, Health Programs, Public Health
Toward Developing Competent Evaluation Managing
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Baizerman, Michael; Compton, Donald W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Here the essentials of the expertise of managing are presented as orientation toward (ethos, stance, and gaze), knowledge about, and knowledge how-to ("know-how"). These are grounded to specific content, summarized, and then connected to a typology of managing evaluation. The orienting questions for the field are reviewed to reveal what it means…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Career Development, Program Evaluation, Organizational Theories