Creative Ideas For Teaching Evaluation: Activities, Assignments and Resources

✍ Scribed by Donna M. Mertens (auth.), Donna M. Mertens (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 24
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators. A few hardy souls gathered to exchange ideas on improving the teaching of evaluation. At subsequent annual meetings, these informal sessions attracted more and more participants, eager to talk about common teaching interests and to exchange reading lists, syllabuses, assignments, and paper topics. The ses­ sions were irreverent, innovative, lively, and unpredictable. Eventually the group for­ malized itself with the American Evaluation Association as the Topical Interest Group in the Teaching of Evaluation (TIG: TOE). As word of TIG: TOE's activities spread, instructors from all over the country clamored for assistance and advice. It became apparent that a handbook was need­ ed, a practical interdisciplinary guide to the teaching of evaluation. Donna M. Mertens, a long-standing member of TIG: TOE and an accomplished teacher of evaluation, volunteered to edit the book, and her skills, sensitivity, and experience in the craft of teaching are apparent throughout.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Practical and Theoretical Framework....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Constructing an Operational Evaluation Design....Pages 9-47
Conceptualizing Evaluation: The Key Evaluation Checklist....Pages 49-71
Journal Writing in Evaluation....Pages 73-74
Field Experiences in Evaluation Courses....Pages 75-78
Identifying the Evaluation and its Usefulness....Pages 79-83
Evaluability Assessment....Pages 85-87
Evaluation Questions and Methods....Pages 89-94
Alternative Evaluation Data Collection Techniques....Pages 95-100
Establishing Evaluation Boundaries....Pages 101-104
Alternative Models For Evaluation....Pages 105-112
Planning a Discrepancy-Based Evaluation....Pages 113-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Naturalistic Interviewing....Pages 123-128
Critical Issues in Participant Observation....Pages 129-134
Naturalistic Data Collection: Case Study Discussion....Pages 135-140
“Trustworthiness” in Naturalistic Inquiry: Audit Trails....Pages 141-145
Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation....Pages 147-153
Writing and Interpreting Ethnographic Protocols....Pages 155-163
The Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data....Pages 165-173
Understanding Content Analysis Through the Sunday Comics....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Using Case Records....Pages 183-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Collection Techniques for Needs Assessment....Pages 193-201
A Quick Look at the Nominal Group Technique....Pages 203-211
Developing Focus Group Questions for Needs Assessment....Pages 213-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Proposal Writing in Early Childhood Special Education....Pages 223-228
Responding to an Informal Request to Evaluate: Writing a Proposal....Pages 229-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
A Hands-on Experience in Clinical Supervision....Pages 239-247
Tensions and Accommodations Among Administrators and Teachers about Staff Appraisal....Pages 249-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Information Portrayal and Use....Pages 259-267
Ethics and Evaluation: Problems, Issues, and Usefulness....Pages 269-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Policy/Goal Percentaging....Pages 279-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Statistical Software Expert System....Pages 283-285
Charting Student Progress....Pages 287-289
Activities for Teaching Regression to the Mean....Pages 291-299
Using Microcomputer Database Management Software to Solve Evaluation data Management Problems....Pages 301-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-312

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Education (general)