02143 a2200253 4500 OSt 20180116182723.0 160427b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0761926658 9780761926658 0 001.4 Stake, Dr. Robert E. Standards-based and responsive evaluation. 1st ed. [S.l.] : Sage Publications, Inc, 2003. 368 p. ; 23 cm. Paperback. The book begins with the main strategic choices an evaluator needs to make between approaches: quantitatively,by explicating criteria, needs, standards, and performances, or qualitatively, by studying the activity, aspirations, problems, and accomplishments of the participants and critical observers. After reading the text, students will have a better appreciation of evaluation as a process that needs to be custom-fit to the situation. Throughout the book, Stake presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader: - To remain independent or to join with program staff or stakeholders - To value personal experience as evidence or to shun it as biased - To aid development formatively or to assess the existing program summatively - To use issues, goals, gains, efficiency, or problem solving as the key conceptual structure - To invest small or large in trying out and validating data-gathering procedures - To support the standards and ethical codes of professional associations Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation will prove an essential text for program evaluation courses in education, nursing, social work, psychology, sociology, communication, and anthropology. Experienced researchers and professional evaluators will also find this an invaluable reference for a more experiential, interpretive approach to evaluation work and policy setting. Stake, Dr. Robert E. Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761926658/chopaconline-20 Amazon customer reviews http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=0761926658 NBS BK 001.4 STA ddc 344770 344770 0 0 0 0 CS CL CL CS 2013-08-28 1 001.4 STA NBS6484 2021-12-03 2021-11-12 2013-08-28 BK