The authors use the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice to cut through current confusion about values and the interplay of facts and values. Four views of facts and values in evaluation are analyzed: those rooted in a fact-value dichotomy and those of radical constructivists, postmodernists, and deliberative democrats. The arguments are tough, the prose concise, and the insights compelling.
The authors use the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice to cut through current confusion about values and the interplay o...
Why do we have evaluation? Is evaluation a discipline? How much impact does evaluation have on government, education or politics? Can social problems, such as poverty, be solved by the application of resources and intelligence? By exploring how evaluation has evolved as a discipline, science and profession, Ernest R House assesses the impact of evaluation on modern societies and the issues that this impact raises for evaluators. Issues addressed include: pluralism versus managerialism; quantitative versus qualitative methodologies; the purpose of education for knowledge production versus...
Why do we have evaluation? Is evaluation a discipline? How much impact does evaluation have on government, education or politics? Can social problems,...
This text illustrates that attempts to reshape American schools to make productive workers ignore how schools work and students learn, and are therefore doomed to failure. The book provides an appraisal framework to test the relative merits and viability of popular reform ideas.
This text illustrates that attempts to reshape American schools to make productive workers ignore how schools work and students learn, and are therefo...
Evaluation politics is one of the most critical, yet least understood aspects of evaluation. Tosucceed, evaluators must grasp the politics of their situation, lest their work be derailed. Thisengrossing novel illuminates the politics and ethics of evaluation, even as it entertains. PaulReeder, an experienced (and all too human) evaluator, must unravel political, ethical, andtechnical puzzles in a mysterious world he does not fully comprehend. The book captures thecomplexities of evaluation politics in ways other works do not. Written expressly for learning andteaching, the evaluation novel is...
Evaluation politics is one of the most critical, yet least understood aspects of evaluation. Tosucceed, evaluators must grasp the politics of their si...
Evaluation politics is one of the most critical, yet least understood aspects of evaluation. Tosucceed, evaluators must grasp the politics of their situation, lest their work be derailed. Thisengrossing novel illuminates the politics and ethics of evaluation, even as it entertains. PaulReeder, an experienced (and all too human) evaluator, must unravel political, ethical, andtechnical puzzles in a mysterious world he does not fully comprehend. The book captures thecomplexities of evaluation politics in ways other works do not. Written expressly for learning andteaching, the evaluation novel is...
Evaluation politics is one of the most critical, yet least understood aspects of evaluation. Tosucceed, evaluators must grasp the politics of their si...
This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field. The book developed a new, expanded conception of the validity of evaluation studies, based on broad criteria of truth, beauty, and justice. It also presented a widely-used typology of evaluation approaches and critiqued these approaches with the validity criteria. Its long term influence is demonstrated by the book, (published in 1980) and criteria being prominently featured in the overall theme for the forthcoming American Evaluation Association's annual conference in November, 2010.
This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field. The book developed a new, expanded conception...
