Written by one of the leaders in evaluation, Evaluation Thesaurus, Fourth Edition, provides readers with a quick analysis of the leading concepts, positions, acronyms, processes, techniques, and checklists in the field of evaluation. Containing nearly 2000 entries, Michael Scriven's thesaurus offers professionals and students a guide for understanding the relation of evaluation to the doctrine of value-free social science, ways to integrate the parts of multi-dimensional evaluations into an overall rating, the realities of evaluation consulting, and techniques for the use of spreadsheets in qualitative evaluation.
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Actually the same could be said of the man himself. The evaluation thesaurus is difficult to define and place. It is not so much a thesaurus or dictionary as a series of mini (and not so mini) essays from one of evaluation's leading philosophers.Michael Scriven has strong views about the place, role and requirements of evaluation, and he uses this book, amongst other things, to lecture on these subjects. The book starts with an extended introduction to (Scriven's view of) the place of evaluation within the academic world, much of which is focused on an over-extended geographical metaphor of academic disciplines. The point of this is an attempt to stake elevaluation's claim to independence as a "trans-discipline" servicing other disciplines in a similar fashion to statistics. (Despite this declaration of independence, Scriven himself is employed within a School of Education) More useful are the entries themselves, which alert readers to issues such as the "Harvard fallacy" (the assumption that a programme must be good because of its outcomes, without considering any advantages that it might derive, for example from having exceptional student intakes) and the fact that evaluators cannot avoid making value judgements. You do not have to agree with Scriven, but you need to address the issues he raises if you are serious about evaluation.
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Addresses the question of subjectivity in evaluation, and recommends new approaches to overcome subjectivity.
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general purpose evaluator, contextually evaluative, general positive bias, probative inference, perspectival evaluation, probative logic, compensatory criteria, irrelevant expertise, critical competitors, illicit values, constancy requirement, fiscal evaluation, qualitative weight, shared bias, sonnel evaluation, evaluative inference, evaluative conclusions, impacted population, illuminative evaluation, evaluative reasoning, responsive evaluation, evaluation anxiety, modus operandi method, naturalistic evaluation, product evaluation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Consumer Reports, Consumers Union, Quarter Century, University of Chicago, Foundations of Program Evaluation, John Henry, Theories of Practice, Great Houses, Bob Stake, Carol Weiss, Offices of the Inspectors General, Sesame Street, The Paradigm Dialog, Western Michigan, Air Force, Attorney General, Bob Wolf, Dan Stufflebeam, Decision Research, Evaluation Center, French Army New!
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general purpose evaluator, contextually evaluative, general positive bias, probative inference, perspectival evaluation, probative logic, compensatory criteria, irrelevant expertise, critical competitors, illicit values, constancy requirement, fiscal evaluation, qualitative weight, shared bias, sonnel evaluation, evaluative inference, evaluative conclusions, impacted population, illuminative evaluation, evaluative reasoning, responsive evaluation, evaluation anxiety, modus operandi method, naturalistic evaluation, product evaluation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Consumer Reports, Consumers Union, Quarter Century, University of Chicago, Foundations of Program Evaluation, John Henry, Theories of Practice, Great Houses, Bob Stake, Carol Weiss, Offices of the Inspectors General, Sesame Street, The Paradigm Dialog, Western Michigan, Air Force, Attorney General, Bob Wolf, Dan Stufflebeam, Decision Research, Evaluation Center, French Army New!
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- Evaluating with Validity by Ernest R. House on page 194, and page 317
- Handbook of Social and Evaluation Anxiety by H. Leitenberg on page 145, and page 376
- Theory-Driven Evaluations by Huey Tsyh Chen on page 74, and page 286
- Test Item Bias (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Steven J. Osterlind on page 246
- Graduate Record Examination: Gre Sociology (GRE Test) by Research and Education Association in Back Matter
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- Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound Evaluation by E. Jane Davidson on 11 pages
- The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers (Research Methods for the Social Sciences) by John Boulmetis on page 150, page 165, and Back Matter
- Measurement and Evaluation: Strategies For School Improvement (The School Leadership Library) by James McNamara on page 7, page 86, and page 89
- The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers (Jossey-Bass Business and Management Series) by John Boulmetis on page 138, page 152, and page 200
- Evaluation as a Democratic Process: Promoting Inclusion, Dialogue, and Deliberation: New Directions for Evaluation (J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation) by Katherine E. Ryan on page 12, and page 50
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