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Evaluation theory, models, and applications /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stufflebeam, Daniel L.
Other Authors: Shinkfield, Anthony J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2007]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evaluation Studies as Topic.
Research.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the evaluation field
  • The nature of program evaluation theory
  • Standards for program evaluations
  • Personnel evaluation : the ghost in program evaluations
  • Background for assessing evaluation approaches and models
  • Pseudoevaluations
  • Questions- and methods-oriented evaluation approaches [quasi-evaluation studies]
  • Improvement- and accountability-oriented evaluation approaches
  • Social agenda and advocacy approaches
  • Eclectic evaluation approaches
  • Best approaches for twenty-first-century evaluations
  • The evaluation case : an evaluation of an innovative housing and community development project
  • Experimental design
  • Case study evaluations
  • Daniel Stufflebeam's CIPP model for evaluation : an improvement/accountability approach
  • Michael Scriven's consumer-oriented approach to evaluation
  • Robert Stake's responsive/client-centered evaluation approach
  • Michael Patton's utilization-focused evaluation
  • Identifying and assessing evaluation opportunities
  • First steps in addressing evaluation opportunities
  • Designing evaluations
  • Budgeting evaluations
  • Contracting evaluations
  • Collecting evaluative information
  • Analyzing and synthesizing information
  • Communicating evaluation findings
  • Metaevaluation : evaluating evaluations.