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Peer reviewedWholey, Joseph S. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive technique that can be used to determine the extent to which different problems inhibit program evaluation. It involves policymakers, managers, and staff in developing program theory, clarifying intended uses of evaluation information, and planning further evaluations that would stimulate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedStahler, 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
Peer reviewedBickman, Leonard – Evaluation Practice, 1994
The author's optimistic view of evaluation in the future includes increased utilization, especially in the private sector; more professionalization, with potential for conflict; more academic program development; more use in policy; increase in the use of complex methods; and more involvement in program development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Conflict, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
Download full textBaker, Eva L. – 1986
Some special problems associated with evaluating intelligent computer-assisted instruction (ICAI) programs are addressed. This paper intends to describe alternative approaches to the assessment and improvement of such applications and to provide examples of efforts undertaken and shortfalls. Issues discussed stem chiefly from the technical demands…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Criterion Referenced Tests
Raupp, Magdala; Kolb, Frances Arick, Ed. – 1990
This handbook is designed to help educators understand program evaluation processes so that they will be able to carry out evaluation tasks and talk knowledgeably to evaluators about what they want to find out from a program evaluation. The book reviews the purposes and uses of evaluation to help the reader identify the scope and direction of the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Cost Estimates, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Peer reviewedSmith, M. F. – Evaluation Practice, 1994
This paper summarized contributors' ideas about evaluation as a field and where it is going. Topics discussed were qualitative versus quantitative debate; evaluation's purpose; professionalization; program failure; program development; evaluators as advocates; evaluation knowledge; evaluation expansion; and methodology and design. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking
