Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation
| Author/creator | Stake, Robert E. Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
| Description | 368 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SAGE Research Methods Core |
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| Summary | Annotation Written by a master writer and evaluator, this text explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make--from attention to stakeholders, to weighing ethical risks, to writing a useful report--when doing an evaluation. The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or, qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. Throughout the book, the author presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader. He leads audiences to consider whether they would prefer to remain independent as evaluators or to join with a staff and/or stakeholders connected to the program; to aid in development formatively or to assess the whole program summatively; to invest minimally or largely in trying out and validating data gathering procedures; and how much to support professional associations, their standards, and ethics. After reading the book, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003014865 |
| ISBN | 9780761926658 |
| ISBN | 0761926658 (Trade Paper) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780761926658 |
| Stock number | B2664XP 00023123 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |