Evaluation Models Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stufflebeam, Daniel L. (Editor), Madaus, George F. (Editor), Kellaghan, Thomas. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services ; 49
• Subjects: Education.; Teaching.; Assessment.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Teaching and Teacher Education.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Evaluation Models is an up-to-date revision of the classic text first published in 1983. Organized in three sections, the first includes a historical perspective on the growth of evaluation theory and practice and two comparative analyses of the various alternative perspectives on evaluation. The se...

Table of Contents:

• Program Evaluation: An Introduction
• Program Evaluation: A Historical Overview
• Models, Metaphors, and Definitions in Evaluation
• Foundational Models for 21st Century Program Evaluation
• Questions/Methods-Oriented Evaluation Models
• A Rationale for Program Evaluation
• Outcome Evaluation
• The Role of Testing in Evaluations
• The Discrepancy Evaluation Model
• The Role of Field Trials in Evaluating School Practices: A Rare Design
• Cost Analysis for Improved Educational Policymaking and Evaluation
• The Clarification Hearing: A Personal View of the Process
• Case Study Evaluations: A Decade of Progress?
• Educational Criticism as a form of Qualitative Inquiry
• Program Theory: Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work
• Improvement/Accountability-Oriented Evaluation Models
• Course Improvement through Evaluation
• Evaluation Ideologies
• The CIPP Model for Evaluation
• Accountability: Implications for State and Local Policymakers
• Social Agenda-Directed (Advocacy) Models
• Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation
• Epistemological and Methodological Bases of Naturalistic Inquiry
• Developing Discourses on Evaluation
• Steps of Empowerment Evaluation: From California to Cape Town
• Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice
• Overarching Matters
• Utilization-focused Evaluation
• Professional Standards and Principles for Evaluations
• The Methodology of Metaevaluation.