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Peer reviewedKurz, Dorothy E. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1983
The methodology of participant observation in evaluation research is described. The author cites examples of its use and includes references to additional sources of information. The characteristics of participant observation, appropriate circumstances for use, and specific techniques of this method are examined. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Ethnography, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Field Studies
Peer reviewedAnderson, Lorin W. – Educational Leadership, 1987
Critiques the Napa/Vacaville project for being exceptionally well designed yet being ineffective. The key to effective staff development is to find ways of increasing teachers' ability to accept innovations and incorporate them into their teaching repertoires. (MD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies, Program Evaluation
Patton, Michael Quinn – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the fourth in the kit, explains the basic assumptions underlying qualitative procedures, suggests evaluation situations where qualitative designs are useful, and provides guidelines for designing qualitative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Jones, Stephen P. – 1987
Since all Agency for International Development (AID) projects require an evaluation component, AID's emphasis on assistance to agriculture and rural development projects ensures a continuing need for skilled and expert personnel to evaluate those projects. Intended for potential AID project evaluators, this guide uses experience gained from field…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agricultural Education, Consultants, Credentials
Peer reviewedRobbins, Pam; Wolfe, Pat – Educational Leadership, 1987
A California school district used the Hunter teaching model for a study to measure the effect of the model on teachers and students in two schools over a four-year period. Evaluation shows that student achievement and teacher behavior improved during the first three years then dropped during the fourth. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textSpirer, Janet E. – 1980
In comparison with traditional experimental design, which is concerned with what happened, a case study approach is more appropriate for answering the question of why or how something happened. As an alternative complementary-vocational-education-evaluation approach, the case study attempts to describe and analyze some program in comprehensive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
Peer reviewedRogers, Terry Heitz; Gamson, Zelda F. – Review of Higher Education, 1982
A model for evaluation of liberal arts programs is proposed, based on a study of liberal arts in 14 diverse institutions. It takes a developmental perspective, emphasizing process as well as product, description as well as analysis, clarification of terms before measurement, and collaboration of evaluators and participants. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
