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The ABCs of Evaluation Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Boulmetis, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers -- Contents -- Preface -- The Authors -- 1 What is Evaluation? -- Common Denominators -- Two Definitions of Evaluation -- Evaluating Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Impact -- Evaluating Alternatives -- Identifying Areas to Improve -- Other Levels -- Formal Reasons to Evaluate -- Practical Application -- Formative and Summative Evaluations -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercises -- Further Reading -- 2 Why Evaluate? -- Grants and Grantsmanship -- Benefits 
505 8 |a Benefits to Sponsors and Staff -- Opportunities -- Understanding of Outcomes -- Limitations -- Considerations -- Social and Political Situations -- Decision-Making Needs -- Research for New Solutions -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercise -- Further Reading -- 3 Decision Making: Whom to Involve, How, and Why? -- Program and Project Cycles -- Overlooked Stakeholders -- Program Phases -- Evaluation and Monitoring -- Program Planning Cycle and Evaluation -- Needs Analysis -- Program Planning -- Program Implementation and Formative Evaluation 
505 8 |a Final Evaluation: Summative -- Types of Evaluation for Decision Making -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercises -- Further Reading -- 4 Starting Point: The Evaluator's Program Description -- What an Evaluator's Program Description Can Do -- Developing an Evaluator's Program Description -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercises -- Further Reading -- 5 Choosing an Evaluation Model -- More Than One Way to Evaluate -- Four Evaluation Models -- Discrepancy Model -- Goal-Free Model -- Transaction Model -- Decision-Making Model 
505 8 |a Other Models -- Goal-Based Method -- Choosing the Right Model -- Evaluation Design Format -- Other Considerations -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercise -- Further Reading -- 6 Data Sources -- Starting Point -- Qualitative and Quantitative Data Sources -- Four Levels of Data -- Nominal Data -- Ordinal Data -- Interval Data -- Ratio Data -- Nature of Data Collection -- Existing Data -- Newly Collected Data -- Interview -- Scales -- Sentence Completion -- Tests -- Observational Analysis -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts 
505 8 |a Questions and Exercise -- Further Reading -- 7 Data Analysis -- Data Analysis -- Data -- Terms -- Statistics -- Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Variability -- Levels of Data -- Putting It All Together -- Key Words and Concepts -- Questions and Exercise -- Further Reading -- Software for Personal Computers -- 8 Is It Evaluation or Is It Research? -- Determining Evaluation or Research from Intent -- Determining Evaluation or Research from Design -- Qualitative and Quantitative Characteristics -- Sampling -- Probability Sampling Methods -- Nonprobability Sampling Methods 
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