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Title The program evaluation standards : a guide for evaluators and evaluation users / editors, Donald B. Yarbrough ... [and others]
Edition Third edition
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2011

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 W'PONDS  379.154 Yar/Pes 2011  AVAILABLE
Description xlvii, 334 pages ; 26 cm
Contents Standards -- Pt.1. Utility -- Evaluator credibility -- Attention to stakeholders -- Negotiated purposes -- Explicit values -- Relevant information -- Meaningful processes and products -- Timely and appropriate communicating and reporting -- Concern for consequences and influence -- Pt.2. Feasibility -- Practical procedures -- Contextual viability -- Resource use -- Pt3. Accuracy -- Justified conclusions and decisions -- Valid information -- Reliable information -- Explicit program and context descriptions -- Information management -- Sound designs and analyses -- Explicit evaluation reasoning -- Communication and reporting -- Pt.5. Evaluation accountability -- Evaluation documentation -- Internal metaevaluation -- External metaevaluation
Summary Includes a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Educational evaluation -- United States.
Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
Author Yarbrough, Donald B.
Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.
LC no. 2010010922
ISBN 9781412986564 (cloth)
9781412989084 (paperback)