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This practical, user-friendly resource helps students successfully complete an evaluation capstone: a dissertation, thesis, or culminating project where a student conducts an evaluation as their capstone experience. Authors Tamara M. Walser and Michael S. Trevisan present a framework to support students and faculty in maximizing student development of evaluator competencies, addressing standards of the evaluation profession, and contributing to programs and disciplinary knowledge. Their framework, and this book, is organized by six fundamentals of evaluation practice: quality; stakeholders; understanding the program; values; approaches; and maximizing evaluation use. Throughout the book they use the metaphor of the journey to depict the processes and activities a student will experience as they navigate an evaluation capstone and the six fundamentals of evaluation practice. In pursuit of a completed capstone, students grow professionally and personally, and will be in a different place when they reach the destination and the capstone journey is complete.
Values: Engaging Values Through Evaluation Purpose, Questions, and Criteria
Values: Engaging Values Through Evaluation Purpose, Questions, and Criteria
Guiding Questions
- What role does the concept of value play in the evaluation discipline?
- What does it mean to engage values in the evaluation process?
- What does an evaluation purpose statement typically include?
- What are some suggestions for developing big-picture, meaningful, evaluative, and clear evaluation questions?
- What is the purpose of evaluation criteria?
- What are some common strategies for developing evaluation criteria?
- Why is it important to remain flexible as an evaluator?
Chapter Overview
Chapters 3, 4, and 5 focused on the first three fundamentals of evaluation practice, respectively: (1) quality, (2) stakeholders, and (3) understanding. These fundamentals provide the foundation for conducting an evaluation. They emphasize initial planning and preparation to support a successful learning ...
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