Evaluating Educational and Social Programs: Guidelines for Proposal Review, Onsite Evaluation, Evaluation Contracts, and Technical Assistance

✍ Scribed by Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 15
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by national, state, and local agencies. Mandates by federal funding agencies that programs they sponsored be evaluated gave impetus to use of evaluation. Realization that evaluation plays a pivotal role in assuring program quality and effectiveness has maintained the use of evaluation even where mandates have been relaxed. With increased use --indeed institutionalization --of evaluation in many community, state, and national agencies, evaluation has matured as a profession, and new evaluation approaches have been developed to aid in program planning, implementation, monitoring, and improvement. Much has been written about various philosophical and theoretical orientations to evaluation, its relationship to program management, appropriate roles evaluation might play, new and sometimes esoteric evaluation methods, and particular evaluation techniques. Useful as these writings are, relatively little has been written about simple but enormously important activities which comprise much of the day-to-day work of the program evaluator. This book is focused on some of these more practical aspects that largely determine the extent to which evaluation will prove helpful.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 8-10
Strategies for Eliciting High-Quality Proposals....Pages 11-56
Preparing for the Proposal Review....Pages 57-95
Conducting the Proposal Review Process and Presenting the Results....Pages 96-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-121
Uses and Functions of Onsite Evaluations....Pages 122-129
Considerations and Activities Preceding the Onsite Visit....Pages 130-205
Conducting, Reporting and Evaluating Onsite Evaluation Activities....Pages 206-219
Front Matter....Pages 220-222
Organizing a Technical Assistance System....Pages 223-244
Providing Technical Assistance....Pages 245-295
Front Matter....Pages 296-300
Basic Considerations in Establishing Evaluation Contracts and Agreements....Pages 301-315
Negotiating and Monitoring Evaluation Contracts and Agreements....Pages 316-341
Back Matter....Pages 342-347

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Education (general)