{"product_id":"standardsbased-and-responsive-evaluation-9780761926658","title":"StandardsBased and Responsive Evaluation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will want to have in their personal library. It tells us a lot about our field, highlights contrasting ways of evaluating without pitting one against the other, and manages to remind us why many of us chose this line of work in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e--EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthored by a master writer and evaluator, \u003cstrong\u003eStandards-Based and Responsive Evaluation\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make when doing an evaluation, devoting attention to stakeholders, weighing ethical risks, and writing a useful report. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ebegins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. After reading the text, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation. Throughout the book, Stake presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- To remain independent or to join with program staff or stakeholders\u003cbr\u003e- To value personal experience as evidence or to shun it as biased\u003cbr\u003e- To aid development formatively or to assess the existing program summatively\u003cbr\u003e- To use issues, goals, gains, efficiency, or problem solving as the key conceptual structure\u003cbr\u003e- To invest small or large in trying out and validating data-gathering procedures\u003cbr\u003e- To support the standards and ethical codes of professional associations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStandards-Based and Responsive Evaluation\u003c\/strong\u003e will prove an essential text for program evaluation courses in education, nursing, social work, psychology, sociology, communication, and anthropology. Experienced researchers and professional evaluators will also find this an invaluable reference for a more experiential, interpretive approach to evaluation work and policy setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Provides readers with the tools they need to make choices while practicing evaluation\u003cbr\u003e- Employs quotations, poetry, and cartoons to help the reader experience the concepts of evaluation \u003cbr\u003e- Includes boxed examples from a variety of cases, giving readers the opportunity to compare an actual evaluation situation with one in which they may be engaged\u003cbr\u003e- Allows readers to access extensive examples of evaluation reports, coding excerpts, and more, through a complementary Web site appendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will want to have in their personal library. It tells us a lot about our field, highlights contrasting ways of evaluating without pitting one against the other, and manages to remind us why many of us chose this line of work in the first place. -- EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Words 1. Criterial and Interpretive Evaluation    The Ubiquitous Search For Quality    Standards    Criterial and Episodic Thinking    Roles and Styles of Evaluation    Formative and Summative Evaluation    The Evaluand    The Evaluator 2. Roles, Models, and Dispositions    Models    Dispositions    Roles 3. Standards-Based Evaluation    Standards-Based    Bias    Factors    Criteria and Standards for Comparisons    Needs Assessment    Goals    Costs    Representations of Performance    What Goes Wrong 4. Responsive Evaluation    Issues as Conceptual Structure    Observations and Judgments    Perceptions    Combining Responsive and Standards-Based Evaluation    Experience as Knowledge    Organizing and Reporting    Procedures    What Goes Wrong 5. Data Gathering    Choosing Data Sources    Instrumentation    Recipient Responses    Staff and Management Responses    Stakeholder and Public Responses    Data Coding and Records Processing    Surveys    Observation Schedules    Interviewing    Histories and Artifacts 6. Analysis, Synthesis, and Meta-evaluation    Analysis    Synthesis    Experiential and Probative Inferences    Meta-evaluation    An Ethic of Continuous Self-Challenge 7.Clients, Stakeholders, Beneficiaries and Readers    Participatory Evaluation    Stakeholding    Utilization    Democratic Evaluation    Negotiation of a Contract    Writing Reports    Styles of Reporting    Representations of the Evaluand    Names and Labels    Cutting Edge    Offering Recommendations 8. Issues Needing Interpretation    Complexity    Program Standardization Program Fairness    Staff Development 9. Evidence-Based Evaluation    Is Evaluation Science?    Petite and Grand Generalizations    Policy Evaluation    Bias    Skepticism as a Commitment 10. Doing It Right    Quality Work Is Ethical Work    Personal Standards    Professional Standards    Human Subjects Protection    Confidentiality and Anonymity    The Business of Evaluation    Personnel Evaluation    Product Evaluation    Political and Cultural Contexts Last Words References Bibliography Index About the Author","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737184383319,"sku":"9780761926658","price":103.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761926658.jpg?v=1723811036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/standardsbased-and-responsive-evaluation-9780761926658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}