How to Assess Program Implementation
How to Assess Program Implementation

Author: Jean A. King

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780803931305

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The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, fifth in the kit, discusses the role and importance of implementation evaluation and presents methods for designing, using, and reporting the results using assessment instruments to describe accurately how a program looks in operation. Step-by-step guides are provided for program records, observations, and self-reports. The following chapters are included: (1) "Assessing Program Implementation: An Overview"; (2) "Initial Planning: Deciding What To Measure"; (3) "Planning for Data Collection"; (4) "Methods for Assessing Program Implementation: Program Records"; (5) "Methods for Assessing Program Implementation: Questionnaires and Interviews"; (6)"Methods for Assessing Program Implementation: Observations"; and (7) "Summarizing, Analyzing, and Reporting Your Data." An appendix contains questions for an implementation evaluation. (Contains 8 tables, 15 figures, and 10 references.) (SLD)

How to Design a Program Evaluation
How to Design a Program Evaluation

Author: Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1987-12

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780803931282

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The objective of this book is to acquaint the reader with the ways in which evaluation results can be made more credible through careful choice of a design prescribing when and from whom, the data will be gathered. The book helps the reader choose a design, put it into operation and analyze and report the data that has been gathered.

How to Focus an Evaluation
How to Focus an Evaluation

Author: Brian Stecher

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780803931275

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Changes in the initial stages of the evaluation process over the last decade are reflected in How to Focus an Evaluation. A new book in the series, this volume replaces the first edition's How to Deal with Goals and Objectives. The volume recognizes that deciding what to evaluate is a complex negotiation process that involves the methodological predisposition of the evaluator and the client, client needs, the nature of the program and the constraints surrounding the evaluation. It outlines five models that characterize different methodological approaches and considers how each may contribute to the focusing process. The text provides advice on how and what type of information to collect from clients, how to clarify and prioritize evaluation concerns, and how to formulate a plan matching evaluation concerns with data collection procedures within cost constraints.

Evaluator's Handbook
Evaluator's Handbook

Author: Lynn Lyons Morris

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1978-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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Guide to the evaluation of programmes in educational planning - covers fundamentals of programme evaluation, objectives and decision making, design and planning methodologys, e.G. Comparison with control groups, measurement of attitudes, and success, statistical analysis, and related evaluation techniques to quantify assertions (conducting surveys and writing an evaluation report). Bibliographys, diagrams, illustrations, questionnaires and statistical tables.

Program Evaluation Kit
Program Evaluation Kit

Author: Joan L. Herman

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1987-12-01

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13: 9780803931664

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The Program Evaluation Kit is a practical guide to planning and conducting programme evaluations. Its nine volumes and more than 1,200 pages contain every technique necessary to evaluate any programme. This edition of the Kit is a major revision of the highly successful and influential First Edition, published in 1978. It reflects the substantial changes in the process of evaluating programmes that have taken place in the last decade. It will be invaluable to novice evaluators in a broad range of professions as well as a compact reference for the more experienced evaluator. Examples from education, management, health and social services are presented, making this edition of the Kit indispensable to

Evaluator's Handbook
Evaluator's Handbook

Author: Joan L. Herman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1987-12

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780803931268

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The heart of the Program Evaluation Kit, this volume provides a broad overview of evaluation planning and a practical guide to designing and managing programs. Learn how the field of evaluation has changed over the last ten years. This volume is concise, informative, and clearly written. Major attention is given to: establishing an evaluation's parameters; the how-to's of formative and summative evaluation; and the power of evaluation studies that combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Also covered are recently developed evaluation standards; and a new emphasis on ongoing program monitoring in evaluation. The Evaluator's Handbook also covers: concerns, user needs, and other socio-political factors that influence the utility of an evaluation. Strategies for maximizing utility are included throughout the evaluation planning, implementation, and reporting process.