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Title Really new directions in evaluation : young evaluators' perspectives / Sandra Mathison, editor
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Inc. ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations
Series New directions for evaluation, 1907-6736 ; no. 131
New directions for evaluation ; no. 131. 1097-6736
Contents Sociocultural theory: providing more structure to culturally responsive evaluation / Dominica F. McBride -- Making the case for the humanities in evaluation training / Deborah A. Smith -- Political psychology in evaluation: a theoretical framework / S. Marshall Perry -- Bridge between basic social science and evaluation / Robert D. Blagg -- Using nonequivalent dependent variables to reduce internal validity threats in quasi-experiments: rationale, history, and examples from practice / Chris L.S. Coryn, Kristin A. Hobson -- Eval + comm / Stephanie D.H. Evergreen -- Focus groups in the virtual world: implications for the future of evaluation / Kristin L. Galloway -- En"gendering" evaluation: feminist evaluation but "I am not a feminist!" / Divya Bheda -- New evaluators addressing health disparities through community-based evaluation / Dara F. Schlueter -- Inside, outside, upside down: challenges and opportunities that frame the future of a novice evaluator / Sheila B. Robinson -- Sailing through relationships?: on discovering the compass for navigating 21st-century evaluation in the Pacific / Paula White, Amohia Boulton -- Integrating a new evaluation unit with an old institution: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil / Claire E. Baxter -- Building the value of evaluation: engaging with reflective practitioners / Teresa M. Derrick-Mills -- Evaluation of multinational programs: value and challenges / Kim A. Hoffman -- Using organizational memory directories to analyze networks / Madri S. Jansen van Rensburg -- Evolution of understanding: positioning evaluation within a comprehensive performance management system / Kelci M. Price -- Effectiveness engineering: vistas of opportunity beyond merit, worth, and significance / Kurt A. Wilson -- Harnessing the power of the electronic health record data for use in program evaluation / Deborah Cohen -- Utilizing emerging techology in program evaluation / Matthew Galen, Deborah Grodzicki -- Online learning programs: evaluation's challenging future / Derek Nord
Summary This issue of New Directions for Evaluation (NDE) marks a milestone: the 25th anniversary of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). NDE is an official publication of AEA and has been a crucial means for the Association to foster and promote the professionalization of evaluation through thematic discussions of theory and practice in evaluation. NDE was first published in 1978 under the name New Directions for Program Evaluation, although the title became New Directions for Evaluation in 1995 in acknowledgement of the broader scope of evaluation
Notes "Fall 2011."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evaluation.
Educational evaluation.
Valuation.
appraisals (financial records)
EDUCATION -- Finance.
Valuation.
Evaluation.
Educational evaluation.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Form Electronic book
Author Mathison, Sandra.
ISBN 9781118206638
1118206630