Evaluation Models: Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation
Department
Evaluation
Document Type
Book
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Description
Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity, practical significance, accountability, improvement, process, pro duct, fonnative, summative, costs, impact, infonnation, credibility, and - of course - with the ten evaluation itself. To communicate with colleagues and clients, evaluators need to clarify what they mean when they use such tenns to denote important concepts central to their work. Moreover, evaluators need to integrate these concepts and their meanings into a coherent framework that guides all aspects of their work. If evaluation is to lay claim to the mantle of a profession, then these conceptualizations of evaluation must lead to the conduct of defensible evaluations. The conceptualization of evaluation can never be a one-time activity nor can any conceptualization be static. Conceptualizations that guide evaluation work must keep pace with the growth of theory and practice in the field. Further, the design and conduct of any particular study involves a good deal of localized conceptualization.
Call number in WMU's library
LB2823 .E87 2000
ISBN
978-0898381238
Publication Date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
City
Boston
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Citation for published book
Stufflebeam, Madaus, Kellaghan, Stufflebeam, Daniel L, Madaus, George F, & Kellaghan, Thomas. (2000). Evaluation models : Viewpoints on educational and human services evaluation / edited by Daniel L. Stufflebeam, George F. Madaus, Thomas Kellaghan. (2nd ed., Evaluation in education and human services).
Recommended Citation
Madaus, George F.; Scriven, M.; and Stufflebeam, D. L., "Evaluation Models: Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation" (2000). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 514.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/514