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The ABCs of Evaluation Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2011.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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