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Interpretivism
Interpretivism is based on a philosophical framework that promotes plural perspectives in evaluations relying on qualitative approaches and natural settings. It arose as an alternative to positivist methods, and many ...
- Concepts, Evaluation
- Personnel Evaluation
- Advocacy in Evaluation
- Evaluand
- Evaluation
- Evaluator
- Evaluator Roles
- External Evaluation
- Formative Evaluation
- Goal
- Grading
- Independence
- Internal Evaluation
- Judgment
- Logic of Evaluation
- Merit
- Metaevaluation
- Objectives
- Personnel Evaluation
- Process Evaluation
- Product Evaluation
- Program Evaluation
- Quality
- Ranking
- Standard Setting
- Standards
- Summative Evaluation
- Synthesis
- Value Judgment
- Values
- Worth
- Concepts, Methodological
- 360-Degree Evaluation
- Accountability
- Achievement
- Affect
- Analysis
- Applied Research
- Appraisal
- Appropriateness
- Assessment
- Audience
- Best Practices
- Black Box
- Capacity Building
- Client
- Client Satisfaction
- Consumer
- Consumer Satisfaction
- Control Conditions
- Cost
- Cost Effectiveness
- Criterion-Referenced Test
- Critique
- Cut Score
- Description
- Design Effects
- Dissemination
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Feasibility
- Hypothesis
- Impact Assessment
- Implementation
- Improvement
- Indicators
- Inputs
- Inspection
- Interpretation
- Intervention
- Interviewing
- Literature Review
- Longitudinal Studies
- Measurement
- Modus Operandi
- Most Significant Change Technique
- Norm-Referenced Tests
- Opportunity Costs
- Outcomes
- Outputs
- Peer Review
- Performance Indicator
- Performance Program
- Personalizing Evaluation
- Rapport
- Reactivity
- Reliability
- Sampling
- Score Card
- Secondary Analysis
- Services
- Setting
- Significance
- Situational Responsiveness
- Social Indicators
- Sponsor
- Stakeholder Involvement
- Treatments
- Triangulation
- Concepts, Philosophical
- Verstehen
- Aesthetics
- Ambiguity
- Amelioration
- Argument
- Authenticity
- Authority of Evaluation
- Bias
- Conclusions, Evaluative
- Consequential Validity
- Construct Validity
- Context
- Credibility
- Criteria
- Difference Principle
- Empiricism
- Epistemology
- Equity
- External Validity
- Falsifiability
- Generalization
- Hermeneutics
- Inference
- Internal Validity
- Interpretation
- Interpretivism
- Logical Positivism
- Meaning
- Means-End Relations
- Moral Discourse
- Objectivity
- Ontology
- Paradigm
- Pareto Optimal
- Pareto Principle
- Phenomenology
- Point of View
- Positivism
- Postmodernism
- Postpositivism
- Praxis
- Probative Logic
- Proxy Measure
- Rationality
- Relativism
- Subjectivity
- Tacit Knowledge
- Trustworthiness
- Understanding
- Validity
- Value-Free Inquiry
- Values
- Veracity
- Concepts, Social Science
- Capitalism
- Chaos Theory
- Constructivism
- Critical Incidents
- Deconstruction
- Dialogue
- Disenfranchised
- Experimenting Society
- Feminism
- Great Society Programs
- Ideal Type
- Inclusion
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Evaluation
- Minority Issues in Evaluation
- Persuasion
- Policy Studies
- Politics of Evaluation
- Qualitative-Quantitative Debate in Evaluation
- Social Class
- Social Context
- Social Justice
- Ethics and Standards
- The Program Evaluation Standards
- Certification
- Communities of Practice (CoPs)
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of Interest
- Ethical Agreements
- Ethics
- Guiding Principles for Evaluators
- Honesty
- Human Subjects Protection
- Impartiality
- Informed Consent
- Licensure
- Profession of Evaluation
- Propriety
- Public Welfare
- Reciprocity
- Social Justice
- Teaching Evaluation
- Evaluation and Approaches
- Accreditation
- Action Research
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Artistic Evaluation
- Auditing
- CIPP Model (Concept, Input, Process, Product)
- Cluster Evaluation
- Community-Based Evaluation
- Connoisseurship
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Countenance Model of Evaluation
- Critical Theory Evaluation
- Culturally Responsive Evaluation
- Deliberative Democratic Evaluation
- Democratic Evaluation
- Developmental Evaluation
- Empowerment Evaluation
- Evaluative Inquiry
- Experimental Design
- Feminist Evaluation
- Fourth-Generation Evaluation
- Goal-Free Evaluation
- Illuminative Evaluation
- Inclusive Evaluation
- Institutional Self-Evaluation
- Judicial Model of Evaluation
- Kirkpatrick Four-Level Evaluation Model
- Logic Model
- Models of Evaluation
- Multicultural Evaluation
- Naturalistic Evaluation
- Objectives-Based Evaluation
- Participatory Action Research (PAR)
- Participatory Evaluation
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
- Quasiexperimental Design
- Realist Evaluation
- Realistic Evaluation
- Responsive Evaluation
- Success Case Method
- Transformative Paradigm
- Utilization-Focused Evaluation
- Evaluation Practice around the World, Stories
- Evaluation Planning
- Evaluation Theory
- Laws and Legislation
- Organizations
- Abt Associates
- Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
- American Evaluation Association (AEA)
- American Institutes for Research (AIR)
- Buros Institute
- Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE)
- Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
- Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE)
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
- Evaluation Center, The
- Evaluation Research Society (ERS)
- Evaluators' Institute™, The
- General Accounting Office (GAO)
- International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
- International Development Research Center (IDRC)
- International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
- International Program in Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)
- Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
- Mathematica Policy Research
- MDRC
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Performance Assessment Resource Centre (PARC)
- Philanthropic Evaluation
- RAND Corporation
- Research Triangle Institute (RTI)
- United States Agency of International Development (USAID)
- Urban Institute
- Westat
- WestEd
- World Bank
- World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- People
- Abma, Tineke A.
- Adelman, Clem
- Albæk, Erik
- Alkin, Marvin C.
- Altschuld, James W.
- Bamberger, Michael J.
- Barrington, Gail V.
- Bhola, H. S.
- Bickel, William E.
- Bickman, Leonard
- Bonnet, Deborah G.
- Boruch, Robert
- Brisolara, Sharon
- Campbell, Donald T.
- Campos, Jennie
- Chalmers, Thomas
- Chelimsky, Eleanor
- Chen, Huey-Tsyh
- Conner, Ross
- Cook, Thomas D.
- Cooksy, Leslie
- Cordray, David
- Cousins, J. Bradley
- Cronbach, Lee J.
- Dahler-Larsen, Peter
- Datta, Lois-ellin
- Denny, Terry
- Eisner, Elliot
- Engle, Molly
- Farrington, David
- Fetterman, David M.
- Fitzpatrick, Jody L.
- Forss, Kim
- Fournier, Deborah M.
- Freeman, Howard E.
- Frierson, Henry T.
- Funnell, Sue
- Georghiou, Luke
- Glass, Gene V
- Grasso, Patrick G.
- Greene, Jennifer C.
- Guba, Egon G.
- Hall, Budd L.
- Hastings, J. Thomas
- Haug, Peder
- Henry, Gary T.
- Hood, Stafford L.
- Hopson, Rodney
- House, Ernest R.
- Hughes, Gerunda B.
- Ingle, Robert
- Jackson, Edward T.
- Julnes, George
- King, Jean A.
- Kirkhart, Karen
- Konrad, Ellen L.
- Kushner, Saville
- Leeuw, Frans L.
- Levin, Henry M.
- Leviton, Laura
- Light, Richard J.
- Lincoln, Yvonna S.
- Lipsey, Mark W.
- Lundgren, Ulf P.
- Mabry, Linda
- MacDonald, Barry
- Madison, Anna Marie
- Mark, Melvin M.
- Mathison, Sandra
- Mertens, Donna M.
- Millet, Ricardo A.
- Moos, Rudolf H.
- Morell, Jonathan A.
- Morris, Michael
- Mosteller, Frederick
- Narayan, Deepa
- Nathan, Richard
- Nevo, David
- Newcomer, Kathryn
- Newman, Dianna L.
- O'Sullivan, Rita
- Owen, John M.
- Patel, Mahesh
- Patton, Michael Quinn
- Pawson, Ray
- Pollitt, Christopher
- Porteous, Nancy L.
- Posavac, Emil J.
- Preskill, Hallie
- Reichardt, Charles S. (Chip)
- Rist, Ray C.
- Rog, Debra J.
- Rogers, Patricia J.
- Rossi, Peter H.
- Rugh, Jim
- Russon, Craig W.
- Ryan, Katherine E.
- Sanders, James R.
- Scheirer, Mary Ann
- Schwandt, Thomas A.
- Scriven, Michael
- Shadish, William R.
- Shulha, Lyn M.
- Simons, Helen
- Smith, M. F.
- Smith, Nick L.
- Stake, Robert E.
- Stanfield, John II
- Stanley, Julian C.
- Stufflebeam, Daniel L.
- Tilley, Nick
- Torres, Rosalie T.
- Toulemonde, Jacques
- Trochim, William
- Tyler, Ralph W.
- VanderPlaat, Madine
- Wadsworth, Yoland
- Walberg, Herbert J.
- Walker, Rob
- Weiss, Carol Hirschon
- Whitmore, Elizabeth
- Wholey, Joseph S.
- Wildavsky, Aaron B.
- Worthen, Blaine R.
- Wye, Christopher G.
- Publications
- American Journal of Evaluation
- Evaluation & the Health Professions
- Evaluation and Program Planning
- Evaluation Review: A Journal of Applied Social Research
- Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
- New Directions for Evaluation (NDE)
- Practical Assessment, Research on Evaluation (PARE)
- The Personnel Evaluation Standards
- The Program Evaluation Standards
- EvalTalk
- Guiding Principles for Evaluators
- Qualitative Methods
- Archives
- Checklists
- Comparative Analysis
- Constant Comparative Method
- Content Analysis
- Cross-Case Analysis
- Deliberative Forums
- Delphi Technique
- Document Analysis
- Emergent Design
- Emic Perspective
- Ethnography
- Etic Perspective
- Fieldwork
- Focus Group
- Gendered Evaluation
- Grounded Theory
- Group Interview
- Key Informants
- Mixed Methods
- Narrative Analysis
- Natural Experiments
- Negative Cases
- Observation
- Participant Observation
- Phenomenography
- Portfolio
- Portrayal
- Qualitative Data
- Rapid Rural Appraisal
- Reflexivity
- Rival Interpretations
- Thick Description
- Think-Aloud Protocol
- Unique-Case Analysis
- Unobtrusive Measures
- Quantitative Methods
- Aggregate Matching
- Backward Mapping
- Benchmarking
- Concept Mapping
- Correlation
- Cross-Sectional Design
- Errors of Measurement
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Field Experiment
- Matrix Sampling
- Meta-analysis
- Multitrait-Multimethod Analysis
- Panel Studies
- Pre-Post Design
- Quantitative Data
- Quantitative Weight and Sum
- Regression Analysis
- Standardized Test
- Statistics
- Surveys
- Time Series Analysis
- Representation, Reporting, Communicating
- Systems
- Technology
- Utilization
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