Program Evaluation A Practitioners Guide for Trainers and Educators [Paperback]

I. Conducting EvaluationThe Sourcebook.- 1. Focusing the Evaluation.- What will be Evaluated?.- What is the Purpose for Evaluating?.- Who will be Affected by or Involved in the Evaluation?.- What Elements in the Setting are Likely to Influence the Evaluation?.- What are the Critical Evaluation Questions?.- Does the Evaluation Have the Potential for Success?.- 2. Designing Evaluation.- What are Some Alternative Ways to Design Evaluation?.- What does a Design Include?.- How do You Construct a Design?.- How do You Recognize a Good Design?.- 3. Collecting Information.- What Kinds of Information should You Collect?.- What Procedures should You Use to Collect the Needed Information?.- How much Information should You Collect?.- Will You Select or Develop Instruments?.- How do You Establish Reliable and Valid Instrumentation?.- How do You Plan the Information Collection Effort to Get the Most Information at the Lowest Cost?.- 4. Analyzing Information.- How will You Handle Returned Data?.- Are Data Worth Analyzing?.- How will You Analyze the Information?.- How will You Interpret the Results of Analyses?.- 5. Reporting Information.- Who should Get an Evaluation Report?.- What Content should be Included in a Report?.- How will Reports be Delivered?.- What is the Appropriate Style and Structure for the Report?.- How can You Help Audiences Interpret and Use Reports?.- When should Reports be Scheduled?.- 6. Managing Evaluation.- Who should run the Evaluation?.- How should Evaluation Responsibilities be Formalized?.- How much should the Evaluation Cost?.- How should Evaluation Tasks be Organized and Scheduled?.- What Kinds of Problems can be Expected?.- 7. Evaluating Evaluation (Meta-Evaluation).- What are Some Good Uses of Meta-Evaluation?.- Who should do the Meta-Evaluation?.- What Criteria or Standards Should You Use To Evaluate The Evaluation?.- How do You Apply a Set of Meta-Evaluation Criteria?.- What Procedures are Used in Meta-Evaluation?.- II. ApplicationsThe Casebook.-lcl