Multilevel Evaluation Process Use in Large-Scale Multisite Evaluation

Autor/inn/en	Lawrenz, Frances; Huffman, Douglas; McGinnis, J. Randy
Titel	Multilevel Evaluation Process Use in Large-Scale Multisite Evaluation
Quelle	In: New Directions for Evaluation, (2007) 116, S.75-85 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1097-6736
DOI	10.1002/ev.244
Schlagwörter	Evaluators; Evaluation Methods; Measurement Techniques; Evaluation Research; Teacher Education; Excellence in Education; Educational Research; Participation; Population Groups; Program Evaluation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messtechnik; Evaluationsforschung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lernerfolg; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Teilnahme; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation
Abstract	In this article, the authors examine evaluation process use in a large multilevel, multisite core evaluation. This case highlights the nature of the evaluation processes of the Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP) core evaluation in terms of four categories: (1) social processing; (2) engagement; (3) involvement; and (4) ongoing contact. The authors expand the typical view of process use by examining the direct impact of a centralized core evaluation process on site evaluators, and the indirect impact on nonevaluation-oriented participants in projects. It is a multilevel look at evaluation process use and, as might be expected, shows decreasing process use as level of participation becomes less direct. Insights into how the core evaluation stimulated use of evaluation processes from the perspectives of both the core evaluators and one of the stakeholders are provided. Various issues are explored by examining the types of participation in evaluation processes and the uses that resulted from this participation. This CETP core evaluation example presents a range of issues that may affect the complex phenomenon of evaluation process use. It highlights the need to better understand the factors that affect evaluation process use in the hope that evaluators can design and implement evaluations in such a way as to maximize evaluation process use. By viewing process use by both stakeholders and evaluators in a large multisite national core evaluation, the authors hope to extend thinking about the extent to which process use occurs in complex multisite situations, and more importantly, to help program evaluations promote more process use in the future. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10