A Partnership Model for Evaluation: Considering an Alternate Approach to the Internal-External Evaluation Debate

Autor/inn/en	Le Menestrel, Suzanne M.; Walahoski, Jill S.; Mielke, Monica B.
Titel	A Partnership Model for Evaluation: Considering an Alternate Approach to the Internal-External Evaluation Debate
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 35 (2014) 1, S.61-72 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214013506600
Schlagwörter	Youth Programs; Evaluators; Cooperation; Evaluation Methods; Stakeholders; Teamwork; Program Evaluation; Program Development; Extension Education; Research Design + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugendsofortprogramm; Co-operation; Kooperation; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Programmplanung; Erweitertes Bildungsangebot; Forschungsdesign
Abstract	The 4-H youth development organization is a complex public--private partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the nation's Cooperative Extension system and National 4-H Council, a private, nonprofit partner. The current article is focused on a partnership approach to the evaluation of a national 4-H Science initiative that engaged both internal and external evaluators as well as key stakeholders. While external evaluators are valued for their relative lack of bias and independence, internal evaluation has been the predominant strategy used by the Cooperative Extension system. For this evaluation, we adopted a hybrid approach that teamed an external evaluation firm with a team of internal evaluators and key stakeholders. We discuss specific strategies and approaches that we developed to implement this approach in the 4-H youth development organization and offer suggestions for how it might be useful in other complex, multipartner organizations. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10