An Evaluation Semiotic.

Autor/inn/en	Tucker, Susan A.; Dempsey, John V.
Titel	An Evaluation Semiotic.
Quelle	(1990), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Evaluation Methods; International Programs; Likert Scales; Models; Perception; Program Evaluation; Semiotics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Likert-Skala; Analogiemodell; Wahrnehmung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Semiotik
Abstract	The semiotic interpretative context is extended to program evaluation. Assumptions about the semiotic process of constructing, describing, and judging reality are examined in terms of the viability of the process in explicating a perception-based evaluation model. Models from which inspiration was drawn include R. W. Tyler's instructional objectives model; M. Provus' discrepancy model; the Context, Input, Process, and Product model; M. Scriven's Goal-Free model; and R. E. Stake's model of evaluation. Five core evaluation signs are analyzed in terms of a recently completed case study of perception-based evaluation of a cross-national cultural awareness training program funded by an international foundation. Finally, a semiotic analysis for evaluation studies is discussed in terms of 13 Likert-scaled polemics. It is concluded that evaluation should be approached as both a native undertaking and an alien undertaking, and from an insider viewpoint and a disciplined outsider perspective. What is needed is a paradigm that negotiates major questions openly with all participants, gathers quantitative and qualitative scores of evidence, and applies standards or value criteria that are neither elitist from the perspective of the evaluator nor captured by the tacit agendas of the stakeholders. Two tables and a 72-item list of references are included. (TJH)
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