A Comparison of Participant and Practitioner Beliefs about Evaluation

Autor/inn/en	Whitehall, Anna K.; Hill, Laura G.; Koehler, Christian R.
Titel	A Comparison of Participant and Practitioner Beliefs about Evaluation
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 33 (2012) 2, S.208-220 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214011423803
Schlagwörter	Program Evaluation; Adult Educators; Beliefs; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Pretests Posttests; Family Programs; Parent Attitudes; Barriers; Individual Characteristics; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Belief; Glaube; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Family program; Familienprogramm; Elternverhalten; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	The move to build capacity for internal evaluation is a common organizational theme in social service delivery, and in many settings, the evaluator is also the practitioner who delivers the service. The goal of the present study was to extend our limited knowledge of practitioner evaluation. Specifically, the authors examined practitioner concerns about administering pretest and posttest evaluations within the context of a multisite 7-week family strengthening program and compared those concerns with self-reported attitudes of the parents who completed evaluations. The authors found that program participants (n = 105) were significantly less likely to find the evaluation process intrusive, and more likely to hold positive beliefs about the evaluation process, than practitioners (n = 140) expected. Results of the study may address a potential barrier to effective practitioner evaluation--the belief that having to administer evaluations interferes with establishing a good relationship with program participants. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10