How to be Involved in Program Evaluation (eBook)

What Every Adminstrator Needs to Know

Keith McNeil, Isadore Newman, Jim Steinhauser (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
320 Seiten
R&L Education (Verlag)
978-1-4616-4938-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book will improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by the program director in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator.

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The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator. The authors contend that both of these goals can best be met by understanding each individual role.How to be Involved in Program Evaluation:*Provides a framework for understanding evaluation and the value of working within an evaluation model*Provides an overview of the General Evaluation Model (GEM) *Reviews the components of GEM from the viewpoint of the Evaluator and the Program Director-to emphasize the joint effort of the two persons*Presents aspects of evaluation as a profession, including standards developed by professional organizations, desired traits of the Evaluator, and advantages and disadvantages of the Evaluator coming from outside the organization as compared to inside the organization*Discusses the need for data collection instruments, and presents various examples, along with the advantages and disadvantages of the various evaluation instruments*Discusses the crucial role of reporting evaluation results*Discusses how the General Evaluation Model can be used to evaluate an entire schoolThis book will be a valuable reference to program directors and evaluators.

Autor

Keith McNeil has been teaching at New Mexico State University since 1989.Isadore Newman has been a professor at the University of Akron since 1971. Since 2003, Jim Steinhauser has been an evaluator for the El Paso Independent School District, focusing on the evaluation of the State Compensatory Education program and the evaluation of the Mathematics/Science Partnership between El Paso ISD and the University of Texas at El Paso.

Inhalt

Part 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1 What Is Evaluation?Chapter 3 2 Overview of GEMChapter 4 3 Needs AssessmentChapter 5 4 BaselineChapter 6 5 Procedures to Achieve ObjectivesChapter 7 6 Program Implementation AssessmentChapter 8 7 Post AssessmentChapter 9 8 Review of GEM From the Viewpoint of the Evaluator and the Program DirectorChapter 10 9 Evaluation as a ProfessionChapter 11 10 Evaluation InstrumentsChapter 12 11 ReportingChapter 13 12 Application of GEM to Evaluating SchoolsPart 14 AppendixesPart 15 A AcronymsPart 16 B Personal Evaluation History of the AuthorsPart 17 C Summary of the Program Evaluation StandardsPart 18 D Evaluation Forms and InstrumentsPart 19 E Evaluation PlansPart 20 F Evaluation ReportsPart 21 G Evaluation ResourcesPart 22 H Evaluation Contracts Obtained Over a 12-Year Period, Identified by Number of Years, How Obtained, Funding Agency, and Brief NamePart 23 GlossaryPart 24 ReferencesPart 25 IndexPart 26 About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-4938-2 / 1461649382
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-4938-0 / 9781461649380