The Nature of Evaluation. Part II: Training. ERIC/AE Digest.

Autor/in	Scriven, Michael
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, Washington, DC.
Titel	The Nature of Evaluation. Part II: Training. ERIC/AE Digest.
Quelle	(1999), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications; ERIC Digests in Full Text
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Evaluation Methods; Evaluation Problems; Evaluation Utilization; Evaluators; Program Evaluation; Research Methodology; Theories; Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Theory; Theorie; Ausbildung
Abstract	This digest describes some of the basic logic-of-evaluation skills and some of the basic methodological skills that need to be mastered in order to practice the art and science of evaluation. Some topics from the logic of evaluation that must be dealt with include understanding : (1) the differences and connections between evaluation and other kinds of research; (2) the differences among the basic evaluative procedures and differences between basic evaluation predicates; (3) the arguments that purported to establish the impossibility of scientific demonstrations of evaluations and why these arguments failed; (4) the difference between holistic evaluation and three types of analytic evaluation; (5) the distinction between formative and summative evaluation; (6) the nature of needs assessment; (7) the logic of checklists; (8) the differences and connections between objectivity and bias, preference, commitment, and expertise; (9) the range of evaluation approaches; (10) the difference between the kind of evidence required to establish causation and that required to demonstrate culpability; (11) how evaluation developed to a discipline and a transdiscipline; and (12) how evaluation theory developed to its present form. Nine methodological skills of great importance to evaluation are also listed. (SLD)
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