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Evaluating Educational and Social Programs

Guidelines for Proposal Review, Onsite Evaluation, Evaluation Contracts, and Technical Assistance

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Blaine R. Worthen

    1. Department of Psychology, Utah State University, USA

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  2. Karl R. White

    1. Department of Special Education and Psychology, Utah State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services (EEHS, volume 15)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 1-7

  3. Proposal Review Guidelines and Instruments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 8-10
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    2. Strategies for Eliciting High-Quality Proposals

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 11-56

    3. Preparing for the Proposal Review

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 57-95

    4. Conducting the Proposal Review Process and Presenting the Results

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 96-118

  4. Onsite Evalution Guidelines and Procedures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-121
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    2. Uses and Functions of Onsite Evaluations

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 122-129

    3. Considerations and Activities Preceding the Onsite Visit

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 130-205

    4. Conducting, Reporting and Evaluating Onsite Evaluation Activities

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 206-219

  5. Technical Assistance for Funded Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 220-222
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    2. Organizing a Technical Assistance System

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 223-244

    3. Providing Technical Assistance

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 245-295

  6. Establishing Evaluation Agreements and Contracts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 296-300
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    2. Basic Considerations in Establishing Evaluation Contracts and Agreements

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 301-315

    3. Negotiating and Monitoring Evaluation Contracts and Agreements

      • Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White
      Pages 316-341

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 342-347
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About this book

During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by national, state, and local agencies. Mandates by federal funding agencies that programs they sponsored be evaluated gave impetus to use of evaluation. Realization that evaluation plays a pivotal role in assuring program quality and effectiveness has maintained the use of evaluation even where mandates have been relaxed. With increased use --indeed institutionalization --of evaluation in many community, state, and national agencies, evaluation has matured as a profession, and new evaluation approaches have been developed to aid in program planning, implementation, monitoring, and improvement. Much has been written about various philosophical and theoretical orientations to evaluation, its relationship to program management, appropriate roles evaluation might play, new and sometimes esoteric evaluation methods, and particular evaluation techniques. Useful as these writings are, relatively little has been written about simple but enormously important activities which comprise much of the day-to-day work of the program evaluator. This book is focused on some of these more practical aspects that largely determine the extent to which evaluation will prove helpful.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Utah State University, USA

    Blaine R. Worthen

  • Department of Special Education and Psychology, Utah State University, USA

    Karl R. White

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluating Educational and Social Programs

  • Book Subtitle: Guidelines for Proposal Review, Onsite Evaluation, Evaluation Contracts, and Technical Assistance

  • Authors: Blaine R. Worthen, Karl R. White

  • Series Title: Evaluation in Education and Human Services

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7420-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, Boston 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7422-0Published: 25 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7420-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 368

  • Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Education, general

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