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Using System Dynamics as an Evaluation Tool: Experience from a Demonstration Program
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Fredericks, Kimberly A.; Deegan, Michael; Carman, Joanne G. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
Evaluators are often faced with many challenges in the design and implementation of a program's evaluation. Because programs are entangled in complex networks of structures and stakeholders, they can be challenging to understand, and they often pose issues of competing and conflicting goals. However, by using a systems mapping approach to…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Systems Approach
Semi-Structured Interview Protocol for Constructing Logic Models
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Gugiu, P. Cristian; Rodriguez-Campos, Liliana – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
This paper details a semi-structured interview protocol that evaluators can use to develop a logic model of a program's services and outcomes. The protocol presents a series of questions, which evaluators can ask of specific program informants, that are designed to: (1) identify key informants basic background and contextual information, (2)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Demonstration Programs
An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Evaluation Team: Benefits for Other-Discipline Specialists.
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Rockwell, S. Kay; Buck, Janet S. – Evaluation Practice, 1995
The benefits that accrued to 14 agriculturalists as they performed evaluators' roles on a team examining water quality demonstration projects were studied. Results suggest that collaboration between the agriculturalists and evaluators strengthened study recommendations and were personally and professionally rewarding to the participating…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Personnel, Agriculture, Demonstration Programs
Improving the Quality of Evaluations of Federal Human Services National Demonstration Programs.
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Stahler, Gerald J. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1995
Some of the major issues related to planning evaluations of federal human services national demonstration programs are discussed. Barriers to conducting evaluations are discussed for the policy level and cross-site and within-site evaluation contexts. Among the proposed solutions is the use of an explicit programmatic developmental sequence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Problems, Evaluators, Federal Programs
Controlling Qualitative Data: Understanding Teachers' Value Perspectives on a Sex Equity Education Project.
Pearsol, James A. – 1985
This paper describes the practical steps employed in controlling interview data generated from a research project investigating teachers' perspectives on the worth of a sex equity educational demonstration project. These perspectives were then considered as value frameworks that might be used to formulate and interpret a naturalistic-responsive…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs
Education in the South: Abstracts of Papers Read at the Sixteenth Conference for Education in the South Held at Richmond, Va. April 15 to 18, 1913. Bulletin, 1913, No. 30. Whole Number 540
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The Conference for Education in the South, which for 16 years has held its annual sessions at different places in the Southern States, is unique among educational conferences, in that its membership does not consist chiefly of teachers and school officers, but of farmers, professional men of all kinds, business men, and women of varied interests,…
Descriptors: Clubs, Females, Bachelors Degrees, Teacher Certification