The Evaluation Society

Author : Peter Dahler-Larsen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804778121

Get Book

The Evaluation Society by Peter Dahler-Larsen Pdf

Evaluation—whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others—is an important social activity. Any organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation? And, what worthwhile results emerge from it? The Evaluation Society argues that if we want to understand many of the norms, values, and expectations that we, sometimes unknowingly, bring to evaluation, we should explore how evaluation is demanded, formatted, and shaped by two great principles of social order: organization and society. With this understanding, we can more conscientiously participate in evaluation processes; better position ourselves to understand many of the mysteries, tensions, and paradoxes in evaluation; and use evaluation in a more informed way. After exploring the sociology and organization of evaluation in this landmark work, author Peter Dahler-Larsen concludes by discussing issues that are critical for the future of evaluation—as a discipline and a societal norm.

Author : Donald B. Yarbrough,Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412986564

Get Book

The Program Evaluation Standards by Donald B. Yarbrough,Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers Pdf

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.

Author : Stewart I. Donaldson,Robert Picciotto
Publisher : IAP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681234458

Get Book

Evaluation for an Equitable Society by Stewart I. Donaldson,Robert Picciotto Pdf

Governments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns. The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe. Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

Author : Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623964535

Get Book

The Future of Evaluation in Society by Stewart I. Donaldson Pdf

The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past. It is organized to honor one of the founders and most prolific contributors to the profession and transdiscipline of evaluation -- Professor Michael Scriven, and to illuminate the future of evaluation in society. Professor Scriven often shares stories of his meetings with Albert Einsten and the frame-breaking evaluation revolution he has led against the value free doctrine of the social sciences. Both his wide eyed graduate students and the more grizzled evaluation veterans in his professional development workshops quickly learn that Scriven is well traveled and has exchanged some of the boldest ideas and visions with the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Scriven insisted that the 2011 Stauffer Symposium and this volume be organized in that genre. He urged us to invite the most thoughtful and influential evaluation theorists and practitioners we could find to join him in a conversation about the future of evaluation in society. Scriven challenges us to examine the five great paradigm shifts that have revolutionized the foundations of evaluation, and that he believes will form the basis for a much brighter future for evaluation in society. Scriven’s revolutionary ideas are followed and challenged by a group of thought leaders in evaluation who do not necessarily shared his views on evaluation, but who have earned his deepest respect and whose evaluation work he admires including Michael Quinn Patton, Ernest House, Daniel Stufflebeam, Robert Stake, Jennifer Greene, Karen Kirkhart, Melvin Mark, Rodney Hopson, and Christina Christie. However, despite his insistence that his colleagues stay focused on the future of evaluation, you will find that many have recounted their adventures, exchanges, and debates with him over the years, as well as pointed out the many contributions that he has made to the development of evaluation and to the improvement of society through his amazing portfolio of evaluation contributions. The Future of Evaluation in Society: A Tribute to Michael Scriven will be of great interest to evaluation scholars, practitioners, and students of evaluation. It will be appropriate for use in a wide range of evaluation courses including Introduction to Evaluation, Evaluation Theory, and Evaluation Practice courses.

Author : Jan-Eric Furubo,Nicoletta Stame
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429893025

Get Book

The Evaluation Enterprise by Jan-Eric Furubo,Nicoletta Stame Pdf

Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international line-up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars to fill this void. Examining evaluation from a critical – or evaluative – perspective, each contribution in this book offers a systematic and critical insight into the broader relationship between evaluation and society. Divided into three parts, the various chapters ask questions such as: What are the consequences of the institutionalization of evaluation? Has the professionalization of evaluators favored their action in the public interest? Is the money spent on evaluation worth it? Is the market of evaluation allowing real competition for the best services? The answers to these questions demonstrate that the constitutive effects of the social practice of evaluation can also be the suppression of other forms of knowledge and the favoring of certain notions about societal development and political and administrative processes.

Author : Arnold J. Love,Canadian Evaluation Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
ISBN : 0969593309

Get Book

Evaluation Methods Sourcebook by Arnold J. Love,Canadian Evaluation Society Pdf

Author : Donna Podems
Publisher : IAP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681237909

Get Book

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy by Donna Podems Pdf

Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.

Author : Gail Vallance Barrington,Beverly Triana-Tremain
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544339481

Get Book

Evaluation Time by Gail Vallance Barrington,Beverly Triana-Tremain Pdf

This book is an accessible, contemporary, and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation. Authors Gail Vallance Barrington and Beverly Triana-Tremain integrate new approaches and concerns, and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies. They show how evaluators measure whether the planned and implemented interventions or services are achieving their goals and objectives, while focusing on the questions most important to the community and organizations in which the evaluation takes place. The book stresses the role of critical and evaluative thinking, as well as self-reflection, and demonstrates the importance of context and equity in today’s turbulent environment, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.

Author : Thomas Schwandt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804795722

Get Book

Evaluation Foundations Revisited by Thomas Schwandt Pdf

Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a "transdiscipline," as opposed to a formal area of academic study. Accounting for these challenges, Evaluation Foundations Revisited offers an introduction for those seeking to better understand evaluation as a professional field. While the acquisition of methods and methodologies to meet the needs of certain projects is important, the foundation of evaluative practice rests on understanding complex issues to balance. Evaluation Foundations Revisited is an invitation to examine the intellectual, practical, and philosophical nexus that lies at the heart of evaluation. Thomas A. Schwandt shows how to critically engage with the assumptions that underlie how evaluators define and position their work, as well as how they argue for the usefulness of evaluation in society. He looks at issues such as the role of theory, how notions of value and valuing are understood, how evidence is used, how evaluation is related to politics, and what comprises scientific integrity. By coming to better understand the foundations of evaluation, readers will develop what Schwandt terms "a life of the mind of practice," which enables evaluators to draw on a more holistic view to develop reasoned arguments and well fitted techniques.

Author : Helmut Anheier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136569951

Get Book

Civil Society by Helmut Anheier Pdf

Annotation. * Major new account of how to analyse and understand civil society and its ever-more important role in public and political life * Provides a powerful methodology and tools for measuring size, capabilities and effectiveness of civil society in influencing public policy * Essential reading for practitioners and policy-makers in civil society and those studying its role and influence "Civil society -- citizens' groups pursuing their common interests -- has emerged as the major new player in the public realm, and politics and public policy are now determined more than ever before by 'non-State actors'. This book introduces a powerful and innovative approach to measuring, analysing and interpreting civil society." -- the 'Civil Society Diamond'. The aim is to promote a structured and fruitful dialogue within civil society organizations and between them and those in government, business and research institutes who work on them or with them. The methodology uses a range of indicators and data to gauge the strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness of civil society so as to reveal its strategic and policy options.

Author : Marlene Laubli Loud,Marlène Läubli Loud,John Mayne
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452205472

Get Book

Enhancing Evaluation Use by Marlene Laubli Loud,Marlène Läubli Loud,John Mayne Pdf

This book is valuable to those involved in the evaluation of public organisations. Particularly insightful is the realization that similar challenges faced in various organizations are addressed with very different solutions.

Author : Kylie Hutchinson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544320014

Get Book

Evaluation Failures by Kylie Hutchinson Pdf

Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned is a candid collection of stories from seasoned evaluators from a variety of sectors sharing professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward. As the only book of its kind, editor Kylie Hutchinson has collected a series of engaging, real-life examples that are both entertaining and informative. Each story offers universal lessons as takeaways, and discussion questions for reflective practice. The book is the perfect companion to anyone working in the evaluation field, and to instructors of program evaluation courses who want to bring the real world into their classroom.

Author : Donald B. Yarbrough,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483376554

Get Book

The Program Evaluation Standards by Donald B. Yarbrough,Lyn M. Shulha,Rodney K. Hopson,Flora A. Caruthers Pdf

With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Schulha, Hopson, and Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of the Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility, propriety, accuracy, and accountability, and provide guidance to anyone interested in planning, implementing, or using program evaluations. The book is an invaluable resource for practicing evaluators, students, evaluation users, and clients.

Author : Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher : IAP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641133944

Get Book

Outcome Harvesting by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Pdf

Are you a grant maker, manager or evaluator who must assess your work to improve as well as be accountable for the use of resources and results? Does the project, program or organization you fund, manage or evaluate contend with substantial uncertainty about what to do and what will be the results? Do you thus experience constant change and unexpected and unforeseeable actors and factors in your intervention? Do you need to know what you are achieving and how in real time? And therefore, do you seek an alternative to conventional monitoring and evaluation of social change results? If yes, then you are the audience for this book. Beginning in 2002, working closely with co-evaluators and commissioners of evaluations, the author developed Outcome Harvesting to enable evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of changes that interventions have influenced in a broad range of cutting–edge innovation and development projects and programs around the world. Over these years, he led Outcome Harvesting evaluative exercises involving almost 500 non-governmental organizations, networks, government agencies, funding agencies, community-based organizations, research institutes and university programs. In over fifty evaluations, with forty co-evaluators he has harvested thousands of outcomes on six continents. Outcome Harvesting has proven useful in evaluations of a great diversity of initiatives: human rights advocacy, political, economic and environmental advocacy, arts and culture, health systems, information and communication technology, conflict and peace, water and sanitation, taxonomy for development, violence against women, rural development, organic agriculture, participatory democracy, waste management, public sector reform, good governance, eLearning, social accountability, and business competition, amongst others. In this book, the author explains the steps of Outcome Harvesting and how to customize them according to the nine underlying principles. He shares his experience and gives practical advice on how to work with Outcome Harvesting and remain true to its essential features.

Author : Arnold J. Love
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803932014

Get Book

Internal Evaluation by Arnold J. Love Pdf

This text provides an introduction to the theory and practice of internal evaluation. It presents the stages of internal evaluation growth, ways of identifying users' needs and selecting appropriate evaluation methods.