Boek
Written by a master writer and evaluator this text explores the manyconceptual choices an evaluator needs to makefrom attention to stakeholdersto weighing ethical risks to writing a useful reportwhen doing anevaluation. The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needsto make between approaches quantitativelyby explicating criteria needsstandards and performances or qualitatively by studying the activityaspirations problems and accomplishments of the participants and criticalobservers. Throughout the book the author presents evaluation as a series ofchoices for the reader. He leads audiences to consider whether they wouldprefer to remain independent as evaluators or to join with a staff andorstakeholders connected to the program to aid in development formatively or toassess the whole program summatively to invest minimally or largely in tryingout and validating data gathering procedures and how much to supportprofessional associations their standards and ethics. After reading the bookstudents will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needsto be customfit to the situation. «
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