Download or read book The Impact of Multiple Audiences on Evaluation Utilization written by Steven Derrick Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Gatekeepers on Evaluation Use written by Minerva Avila and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the development of a local school reform that was meant to be teacher-driven, this multiple case study explored the limits on evaluation use in a hierarchical setting in which multiple audiences exist. This study was a comparative analysis of the actions and evaluation philosophies of two district administrators responsible for overseeing the same reform at different times. A mixed method approach was employed to analyze secondary data to answer the overarching research question of how evaluation gatekeepers facilitated the use of evaluation findings. Qualitative data suggested that a myriad of factors influenced the actions taken by each of the directors, whom were identified as the main gatekeepers of evaluation information. The director administering the grant in its last two years appeared to be the most committed to the evaluation and most influential in driving use. This was supported by qualitative data on his administrative style, how he navigated the school bureaucracy, his personal beliefs of the SLC initiative, how he monitored and/or prescribed evaluation use, and the amount of time he dedicated to professional development on evaluation use. Additional factors influencing use were also identified. Survey data suggested that school organizational structure influenced utilization by potential users. In general, leadership position at the school level influenced evaluation attitudes and awareness. Principals and SLC leaders were the most aware of the evaluation and its findings. While teachers expected principals to be the main users of evaluation findings, principals themselves did not necessarily hold the same expectation of themselves. Use was reported primarily as leading to direct changes to the SLC programs and, secondly, for planning purposes. There were also some minor references to the use of the evaluation findings for generating conversations/discussions. The findings generated from this multiple case study provide lessons that need further in-depth exploration. The factors identified in this study as the most influential to evaluation use can be studied either individually in simulations or as a group case study. Doing so would bring greater awareness to practitioners about how to encourage evaluation use and, perhaps, greater appreciation for evaluations to stakeholders.

Download or read book Audience Attention as a Basis for Evaluating Interpretive Presentations written by Ronald Eugene Dick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Utilization Focused Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of this bestselling book has been completely revised and updated to provide the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice.

Download or read book Utilization Focused Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Patton's classic text retains the practical advice, based on empirical observation and evaluation theory, of the original. It shows how to conduct an evaluation, from beginning to end, in a way that will be useful -- and actually used. Patton believes that evaluation epitomizes the challenges of producing and using information in the information age. His latest book includes new stories, new examples, new research findings, and more of Patton's evaluation humour. He adds to the original book's insights and analyses of the changes in evaluation during the past decade, including: the emergence of evaluation as a field of professional practice; articulation of standards for evaluation; a methodological synthesis of the qualitative versus quantitative debate; the tremendous growth of 'in-house' evaluations; and the cross-cultural development of evaluation as a profession. This edition also incorporates the considerable research done on utilization during the last ten years. Patton integrates diverse findings into a coherent framework which includes: articulation of utilization-focused evaluation premises; examination of the stakeholder assumption; and clarification of the meaning of utilization. --Publisher description.

Download or read book The Program Evaluation Standards written by Donald B. Yarbrough and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations.

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing the Impact of 10 years of FTA Research a synthesis of the 5 integrated impact studies written by Coccia, F. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development written by Kelly Hannum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implement Evaluation the CCL Way Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development is a step-by-step guidebook for creating and implementing evaluation of leadership development systems. Approaching issues from an evaluative perspective enables leadership development professionals to consider multiple perspectives and draw lessons as a natural part of the way work is done. Advance praise for Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development "This refreshingly practical guide to evaluating leadership activities will provide the confidence and the evidence to reinvigorate the international community's support for effective leadership to address the major global issues of today." -John Davidson, senior public sector specialist, The World Bank "An extremely well-written book! It will help evaluation practitioners demonstrate to their stakeholders where and how evaluation adds unique values to leadership development initiatives." -Huilan Yang, evaluation manager and project leader, W. K. Kellogg Foundation "Hannum and Martineau have nailed this topic! In their mission to educate and assist others in evaluating leadership development, they have provided a valuable guide that is rich with practical tools and examples that enable anyone to think systematically about how to effectively demonstrate the value of their leadership development programs and approaches." -Leslie W. Joyce, vice president and chief learning officer, The Home Depot

Download or read book Extension Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ENC Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The CIPP Evaluation Model written by Daniel L. Stufflebeam and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative presentation of a leading evaluation approach, this book describes the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, and Product) Model’s origin, concepts, and procedures. Unlike many models, CIPP provides for feedback throughout a program. Richly illustrated with evaluation cases, the book covers methods for engaging stakeholders; designing, budgeting, and contracting evaluations; collecting, analyzing, and reporting information; and conducting metaevaluations. User-friendly features include 26 reproducible checklists and forms and references to relevant computer programs. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible tools as well as supplementary materials, including the CIPP Evaluation Model Checklist. User-Friendly Features *Introduction boxes providing an overview of each chapter. *Within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *End-of-chapter review questions and exercises. *End-of-book glossary. *Appendix listing hundreds of CIPP evaluations across disciplines.

Download or read book Developmental Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.

Download or read book Literacy in Teacher Preparation and Practice written by Patrick M. Jenlink and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the meaning of literacy, what it means to be literate, has shifted dramatically. Literacy involves more than a set of conventions to be learned, either through print or technological formats. Rather, literacy enables people to negotiate meaning. The past decade has witnessed increased attention on multiple literacies and modalities of learning associated with teacher preparation and practice. Research recognizes both the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the new globalized society and the new variety of text forms from multiple communicative technologies. There is also the need for new skills to operate successfully in the changing literate and increasingly diversified social environment. Linguists, anthropologists, educators, and social theorists no longer believe that literacy can be defined as a concrete list of skills that people merely manipulate and use. Rather, they argue that becoming literate is about what people do with literacy—the values people place on various acts and their associated ideologies. In other words, literacy is more than linguistic; it is political and social practice that limits or creates possibilities for who people become as literate beings. Such understandings of literacy have informed and continue to inform our work with teachers who take a sociological or critical perspective toward literacy instruction. Importantly, as research indicates, the disciplines pose specialized and unique literacy demands. Disciplinary literacy refers to the idea that we should teach the specialized ways of reading, understanding, and thinking used in each academic discipline, such as science, mathematics, engineering, history, or literature. Each field has its own ways of using text to create and communicate meaning. Accordingly, as children advance through school, literacy instruction should shift from general literacy strategies to the more specific or specialized ones from each discipline. Teacher preparation programs emphasizing different disciplinary literacies acknowledge that old approaches to literacy are no longer sufficient. Literacy in Teacher Preparation and Practice: Enabling Individuals to Negotiate Meaning introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful, research-based works by authors that represent current thinking about literacy across disciplines and the preparation of teachers to enter classrooms. Each chapter focuses on teaching guided by literacies across disciplines and the preparation of teachers who will enter classrooms to instruct the next generation of students.

Download or read book Measuring Museum Impact and Performance written by John W. Jacobsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research and decades of experience, museum analyst and planner John W. Jacobsen provides both the theoretical underpinnings and the operational pragmatics of measuring any museum's intentional impact and performance by using 1,025 indicators drawn from 51 expert sources. Measuring Museum Impact and Performance: Theory and Practice provides museum professionals internationally with a clear, very open process that will improve their museum's value and performance by selecting indicators that monitor whether they are realizing their desired public, private, personal and institutional values. The book is not prescriptive, but liberating, as the framework recognizes that each museum needs to decide on its own purposes and priorities. The book is organized in two parts: "Part 1: Theory" is scholarly and builds on the museum field’s rich literature; and "Part 2: Practice" provides step-by-step methods for any museum to set up its own dashboard of prioritized impact and performance indicators. Substantive attachments include: the list of the 51 source documents for the MIIP indicators; definitions of terms and data fields; a long list of precedented museum impacts; measurement formulas and worksheet templates, filled in for a sample museum; and the MIIP 1.0 database available online. Readers will get the following benefits: A literature review of prior work on measuring museum value An analysis of eleven well-established evaluation frameworks that synthesize into a revolutionary, yet practical, Museum Theory of Action A robust and searchable menu of 1,025 existing and aspirational indicators (the MIIP 1.0 database) that you can use to start your own selection An analysis of the MIIP database using the Theory of Action that reveals 14 areas of potential museum impacts and benefits A process to select and prioritize your museum’s intentional purposes and desired impacts A process to determine, measure and compare your museum’s key performance indicators (KPIs) A process to set-up and conduct peer museum comparisons Procedures and examples of how to capture and report data used in your selected indicators Principles for using indicator data to inform museum management decisions

Download or read book Program Impact Evaluations written by Joan S. Bissell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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