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Volkov, Boris B. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
This chapter features a recent conversation with Dr. Arnold J. Love, a long-time proponent of internal evaluation and one of the most cited internal evaluation authors. In 1983, Love edited the first issue of "New Directions for Program Evaluation" on the topic of internal evaluation. He is the author of the book "Internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Interviews, Organizational Development
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Volkov, Boris B. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
The chapter explores critical roles of internal evaluators in contemporary organizational settings. The need is highlighted for an expanded, reconfigured, unorthodox set of roles and styles of work to meet the needs of the emerging learning organizations effectively. A discussion of major categories of internal evaluator roles emerged from the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Role
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Mathison, Sandra – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
The author analyzes the growth and nature of internal evaluation from the 1960s to the present and suggests that internal evaluation has been on the increase because of its perceived importance. Although the 1960s were characterized by a rich intellectual development of evaluation theory and practice, the fiscal conservatism of the 1980s ushered…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accountability, Public Administration, Political Attitudes
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King, Jean A.; Rohmer-Hirt, Johnna A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
From the 1980s to the present, educational accountability in the United States has grown dramatically. Such accountability in U.S. school districts, although driven primarily by external demands, has internal manifestations as well. The chapter traces the historical development of internal evaluation in American school districts, then highlights…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Testing Programs, Standardized Tests, School Districts
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Hood, Stafford – New Directions for Evaluation, 2000
Deliberative democratic evaluation and other evaluation approaches that require the linkage of evaluation to social and institutional structures require the application of democratic principles in evaluation and policy decisions that reflect these ideas. Outlines challenges in ensuring that members of diverse groups are represented in evaluations.…
Descriptors: Democracy, Evaluation Methods, Policy Formation, Program Evaluation
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Light, Richard J., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2001
The seven chapters of this volume demonstrate that evaluation evidence can overturn widely held beliefs and result in changes in programs and policies. These chapters show that policymakers can welcome findings that challenge long-established ideas and use them to Improve programs and services. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Evaluation Utilization, Policy Formation, Program Evaluation
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Hopson, Rodney K., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2000
The six chapters of this issue consider how language shapes the meaning of social policies and programs that are evaluated. Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these language issues and highlights the practical issues involved in language function in evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Usage, Policy Formation
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SenGupta, Saumitra; Hopson, Rodney; Thompson-Robinson, Melva – New Directions for Evaluation, 2004
Evaluation inarguably takes place within social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts--the contexts defined by human existence and experience. These contexts envelope many dimensions. Race, ethnicity, language, gender, age, religion, and sexual orientation are among the commonly listed demographic attributes of contextual…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Delivery Systems, Services, Evaluation Methods
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Henry, Gary T., Ed.; Julnes, George, Ed.; Mark, Melvin M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1998
The five articles of this sourcebook, organized around the five-component framework for evaluation described by W. Shadish, T. Cook, and L. Leviton (1991), present a new theory of realist evaluation that captures the sensemaking contributions of postpositivism and the sensitivity to values from the constructivist traditions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Models
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Gueron, Judith M. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1997
Rigorous evaluations of welfare-to-work programs have had a major impact on the formation of policy in the area of welfare reform, but it is not clear whether the high level of evaluation, especially with regard to randomized experiments, and impact can continue. Evaluators must strive for research methodologies that provide results for policy…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Policy Formation, Program Evaluation, Public Policy