Evaluation practice : how to do good evaluation research in work settings /
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| Author / Creator: | DePoy, Elizabeth. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, c2008. |
| Description: | viii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6656574 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Beginnings
- Introduction to evaluation practice : a problem solving approach through informed thinking and action
- The conceptual framework of evaluation practice
- Thinking processes of evaluation practice
- Identifying problems and issues : mapping and analyzing your territory
- Obtaining and organizing information : how do you know?
- Ascertaining need : what is needed to resolve all or part of the problem or issue?
- Examining need with previously supported approaches : designing experimental-type inquiry
- Obtaining information in experimental-type needs assessment
- Ascertaining need in unexamined or partially understood contexts : designing inductive inquiry
- Setting goals and objectives
- Reflextive action
- Reflexive action : what is it?
- Thinking processes of reflexive action
- Action processes of reflexive action
- During and after professional effort : did you resolve your problem, how do you know, and how did you share what you know?
- Assessing outcomes : thinking processes in outcome assessment
- Action processes of outcome research
- Commencement : sharing evaluation practice knowledge and on to a new problem statement
- Appendix : data analysis
- References
- Glossary/Index.