| Description |
1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Illustrations of Goal Setting; 3 Goal Setting, Follow-Up, and Goal Monitoring; 4 Applications of Goal Attainment Scaling; 5 Training in Goal Attainment Scaling; 6 Implementing Goal Attainment Scaling; 7 Historical Perspective; 8 Conceptual Background; 9 Psychometric Issues; 10 Reliability of Goal Attainment Scores; 11 Perspectives on Validity; Appendix A: Summary Score Conversion Key; Appendix B: Keeping Follow-Up Guides on Target; Afterword; References |
| Summary |
There is an extensive literature on Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), but the publications are widely scattered and often inaccessible, covering several foreign countries and many professional disciplines and fields of application. This book provides both a user manual and a complete reference work on GAS, including a comprehensive account of what the method is, what its strengths and limitations are, how it can be used, and what it can offer. The book is designed to be of interest to service providers, program directors and administrators, service and business organizations, program evaluators |
| Notes |
Author IndexSubject Index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Aaron
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Cardillo, Joseph E
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| ISBN |
9781317767039 |
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1317767039 |
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