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Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Settings

Author : Emma Norland
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Settings written by Emma Norland and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the issues with which evaluators of nonformal education programs (such as parks, zoos, community outreach organizations, and museums) struggle. These issues are not unique to nonformal programs and settings. Rather, they pose different sets of problems and solutions from those that face evaluators of traditional education programs. The authors address this topic from extensive experience as evaluators and education professionals who have worked in nonformal education settings. Billions of dollars are spent annually on nonformal, informal, and nontraditional education programs and collaborative formal-nonformal efforts. Public and private dollars fund literally thousands of programs, and yet the field of program evaluation has provided little guidance for evaluating such efforts. There are precious few resources available to lead program administrators, staff, and evaluators through the maze of programs with the diversity of the constituencies that support them. The stakeholders and audiences of nonformal education programs are numerous, and these programs can range from a one-shot, hour-long lecture to an ongoing, one-day-a-week volunteer program, to a three-week study tour, to a four-weekends-across-one-year-work camp, to a "stop by when you can" museum collection.

Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Setting

Author : Emmalou Norland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Setting written by Emmalou Norland and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluation in Nonformal Education

Author : David C. Kinsey
Publisher : University of Massachusetts, Center for International Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation in Nonformal Education written by David C. Kinsey and published by University of Massachusetts, Center for International Education. This book was released on 1978 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Techniques for adapting evaluation methods to satisfy the needs of nonformal education are designed for use by the program practitioner. The problems associated with traditional evaluation procedures are described: a focus on outcomes rather than process improvement; a lack of applicability to the nonformal context; and the creation of a costly and disruptive situation within the program. Existing adaptations to various methodologies are discussed in terms of formative evaluation, nonformal education settings, and practitioner use. The criteria for selecting the adaptive process are based on: skill, time, and cost factors; amount of disruption engendered; degree of utility; setting of practical standards; allowance for non-quantifiable indicators; and amount of flexibility to meet program constraints. The approaches to adapting evaluation procedures may be incremental, extractive, or participative, or they may be decision-making or option-oriented. Other considerations include creating a favorable atmosphere and training for practitioner evaluation.j).

Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Settings

Author : Emma Norland
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787985424
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Settings written by Emma Norland and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the issues with which evaluators of nonformal education programs (such as parks, zoos, community outreach organizations, and museums) struggle. These issues are not unique to nonformal programs and settings. Rather, they pose different sets of problems and solutions from those that face evaluators of traditional education programs. The authors address this topic from extensive experience as evaluators and education professionals who have worked in nonformal education settings. Billions of dollars are spent annually on nonformal, informal, and nontraditional education programs and collaborative formal-nonformal efforts. Public and private dollars fund literally thousands of programs, and yet the field of program evaluation has provided little guidance for evaluating such efforts. There are precious few resources available to lead program administrators, staff, and evaluators through the maze of programs with the diversity of the constituencies that support them. The stakeholders and audiences of nonformal education programs are numerous, and these programs can range from a one-shot, hour-long lecture to an ongoing, one-day-a-week volunteer program, to a three-week study tour, to a four-weekends-across-one-year-work camp, to a "stop by when you can" museum collection.

Footprints

Author : Joy A. Frechtling
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788183621
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Footprints written by Joy A. Frechtling and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This FootprintsÓ conference was organized by the National Science Fdn. (NSF) to propose fresh ideas & new methodologies that might inform the design of Education & Human Resources evaluations. Papers include: the use of science & math educ. indicators & studies; a plan for evaluation; new methods for evaluating programs; considerations for the evaluation of NSF programs; communicating the value of the NSF's contributions to research & innovative technical applications for science & math educ.; conceptual underpinnings for program evaluation of major public importance; & the virtual reality of systemic effects of NSF programming on education.

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

Author : Jay Lemke
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252774X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments written by Jay Lemke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-ended; participation is voluntary; and relationships, means, and ends are complex. This report charts the state of the art for learning assessment in informal settings, offering an extensive review of the literature, expert discussion on key topics, a suggested model for comprehensive assessment, and recommendations for good assessment practices.

Completing Your Evaluation Dissertation, Thesis, Or Culminating Project

Author : Tamara M. Walser
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544300018
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Completing Your Evaluation Dissertation, Thesis, Or Culminating Project written by Tamara M. Walser and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical, user-friendly resource helps students successfully complete an evaluation capstone: a dissertation, thesis, or culminating project where a student conducts an evaluation as their capstone experience. Authors Tamara M. Walser and Michael S. Trevisan present a framework to support students and faculty in maximizing student development of evaluator competencies, addressing standards of the evaluation profession, and contributing to programs and disciplinary knowledge. Their framework, and this book, is organized by six fundamentals of evaluation practice: quality; stakeholders; understanding the program; values; approaches; and maximizing evaluation use. Throughout the book they use the metaphor of the journey to depict the processes and activities a student will experience as they navigate an evaluation capstone and the six fundamentals of evaluation practice. In pursuit of a completed capstone, students grow professionally and personally, and will be in a different place when they reach the destination and the capstone journey is complete.

Evaluation of Nonformal Education Programs

Author : Richard J. Shavelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of Nonformal Education Programs written by Richard J. Shavelson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Description of the criteria sampling approach to evaluation of nonformal education - applies the approach to case studies of basic literacy in Indonesia and teacher training programmes in Nigeria and Guyana; analyses the approach, incl. Identification of training objectives, analysis of textbooks and tests.

Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation

Author : Leslie Goodyear
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470447672
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation written by Leslie Goodyear and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrate qualitative inquiry approaches and methods into the practice of evaluation Qualitative inquiry can have a major effect on evaluation practice, and provides evaluators a means to explore and examine various settings and contexts in need of rich description and deeper understanding. Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory to Practice explores the most important considerations for both students and evaluation professionals. Using various evaluation theories and approaches as a springboard for real-world practice, this reference serves as an accessible text for beginning students and seasoned professionals alike. Readers are given an in-depth view of the key qualities and benefits of qualitative inquiry, which also serves as a crucial counterpart to quantitative analysis. Chapters in part one focus on the foundations, core concepts, and intersection of evaluation theory and qualitative inquiry. Part two contains contributions from leading evaluators whose design, implementation, and reporting strategies for qualitative inquiry are centered on common, real-world settings. These case-based chapters point to the strengths and challenges of implementing qualitative evaluations. Key competencies for conducting effective qualitative evaluations are also discussed. Explores the role of qualitative inquiry in many prominent approaches to evaluation Discusses the method's history and delves into key concepts in qualitative inquiry and evaluation Helps readers understand which qualities are necessary to be an effective qualitative evaluator Presents the viewpoints and experiences of expert editors and contributing authors with high levels of understanding on the topic Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory to Practice is a vital tool for evaluators and students alike who are looking to deepen their understanding of the theoretical perspectives and practice considerations of qualitative evaluation.

Serve and Learn

Author : Florence Fay Pritchard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135705054
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Serve and Learn written by Florence Fay Pritchard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice that middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community needs. Second, it demonstrates ways collaborative service-learning can enhance students' intellectual development, promote their academic achievement, strengthen their citizenship skills, and accelerate the kinds of educational accountability and reform initiatives emphasized in the national educational standards movement, and the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. Serve and Learn: Implementing and Evaluating Service-Learning in Middle and High Schools: *provides what may be the only comprehensive guide to implementing, assessing, and celebrating service-learning in today's middle and high schools; *emphasizes and explicates a collaborative approach to service-learning in which teachers, students, and community partners team together to advance learning and meet genuine community needs; *demonstrates how service-learning teams use key elements of standards-based education, multiple intelligences theory, and cooperative learning to guide project development, implementation, assessment, and evaluation; *offers optional designs for service-learning projects that are suitable for use by interns and beginning teachers, as well as by experienced and master teachers, and that can be used in a developmental sequence by school and community partners to build from small, individual projects toward school, system, and community wide projects; and *includes end-of-chapter activities that help those who use the book as a text to practice the model and its strategies, and use results to create their own service-learning projects. The book is organized in three parts that present service-learning along a theoretical to practical continuum. Part I lays the foundations for the method by proposing a collaborative model for service-learning. Part II explicates this model and explains the four sets of processes that teams use to commit to a project, cooperatively determine students' project outcomes and ways to measure them, develop learning activities to help students achieve outcomes, and then evaluate their projects and celebrate growth. Part III provides resources for carrying out the collaborative model. A wide range of educators will find this book useful. Its distinctive contributions and features are particularly valuable for teacher educators, students, and community partners already committed to service-learning projects; to those who are introducing service-learning into their practice; and to instructional supervisors, school administrators, and community agencies seeking to create a climate for service-learning or to enrich initiatives already underway.

Practical Evaluation Guide

Author : Judy Diamond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780759113039
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Practical Evaluation Guide written by Judy Diamond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Evaluation Guide provides the necessary tools to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and exhibits in informal educational settings_museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and parks.

Nonformal Education (NFE) Manual

Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Nonformal Education (NFE) Manual written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Development of a Nonformal Education Program Evaluation Plan

Author : Dana Lindauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Development of a Nonformal Education Program Evaluation Plan written by Dana Lindauer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project proposes an evaluation design for two youth programs that operate out of the Murie Science and Learning Center in Denali National Park and Preserve. The two programs, Denali Backcountry Expeditions and Denali Summer Science Academy, are offered to Alaskan high school and college aged students and are co-managed by the National Park Service and Alaska Geographic. A formative, utilization-focused evaluation for instructors and managers of the programs was created. The evaluation seeks to facilitate targeted program development through articulating program goals and assessing participant outcomes related to these goals. In an effort to establish collaborative goals, eleven stakeholders were interviewed. Through grounded coding of stakeholder interviews, current goals and objectives for both programs were identified. From the interviews, main themes regarding program outcomes included a desire to impact cognitive, affective, and attitudinal relations between public lands and participants, and to provide an opportunity for youth to experience personal growth and social/emotional development in an undeveloped, outdoor setting. These and five other domains of program goals resulting from the analysis of the stakeholder interviews informed the design of a suite of evaluation tools. Tools including youth participant and adult chaperone surveys, concept mapping, and instructor post-program reflections were developed to collect both qualitative and quantitative data about program outcomes in relation to goals. Hardcopy and digital evaluation tools were designed along with an accompanying user manual for instructors and managers of the two programs.

Peace Education Evaluation

Author : Celina Del Felice
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623969751
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Peace Education Evaluation written by Celina Del Felice and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice and research of peace education has grown in the recent years as shown by a steadily increasing number of publications, programs, events, and funding mechanisms. The oft-cited point of departure for the peace education community is the belief in education as a valuable tool for decreasing the use of violence in conflict and for building cultures of positive peace hallmarked by just and equitable structures. Educators and organizations implementing peace education activities and programming, however, often lack the tools and capacities for evaluation and thus pay scant regard to this step in program management. Reasons for this inattention are related to the perceived urgency to prioritize new and more action in the context of scarce financial and human resources, notwithstanding violence or conflict; the lack of skills and time to indulge in a thorough evaluative strategy; and the absence of institutional incentives and support. Evaluation is often demand-driven by donors who emphasize accounting given the current context of international development assistance and budget cuts. Program evaluation is considered an added burden to already over-tasked programmers who are unaware of the incentives and of assessment techniques. Peace education practitioners are typically faced with forcing evaluation frameworks, techniques, and norms standardized for traditional education programs and venues. Together, these conditions create an unfavorable environment in which evaluation becomes under-valued, de-prioritized, and mythologized for its laboriousness. This volume serves three inter-related objectives. First, it offers a critical reflection on theoretical and methodological issues regarding evaluation applied to peace education interventions and programming. The overarching questions of the nature of peace and the principles guiding peace education, as well as governing theories and assumptions of change, transformation, and complexity are explored. Second, the volume investigates existing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods evaluation practices of peace educators in order to identify what needs related to evaluation persist among practitioners. Promising practices are presented from peace education programming in different settings (formal and non-formal education), within various groups (e.g. children, youth, police, journalists) and among diverse cultural contexts. Finally, the volume proposes ideas of evaluation, novel techniques for experimentation, and creative adaptation of tools from related fields, in order to offer pragmatic and philosophical substance to peace educators’ “next moves” and inspire the agenda for continued exploration and innovation. The authors come from variety of fields including education, peace and conflict studies, educational evaluation, development studies, comparative education, economics, and psychology.

Participatory Evaluation Up Close

Author : J. Bradley Cousins
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617358037
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Participatory Evaluation Up Close written by J. Bradley Cousins and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empiricism provides the backbone of knowledge creation within social science disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) and applied domains of study (e.g., education, administration) alike. Yet, relative to such domains of inquiry, comparatively little empirical research on evaluation has occurred, and the research knowledge base been infrequently synthesized and integrated to influence theory and practice. The proposed book aims to fill this void with regard to participatory evaluation, a set of collaborative approaches to evaluation that is receiving considerable attention of late, including a growing body of empirical studies. The authors begin in Part 1 with the delineation of a widely known and familiar conceptual framework for participatory evaluation. They then use the framework in Part 2 as a guide to conducting an extensive review of the extant empirical knowledge base in participatory evaluation, culminating in a thematic analysis of what we know about the approach. In Part 3 the authors focus on methodological considerations of doing research on participatory evaluation through a critique of existing studies and an explication of design choices drawn from their own research program. The book concludes in Part 4 with implications for moving the field forward in terms of important research questions, methodological direction and evaluation practice. This book will be of central interest to evaluation theorists and to those who choose to conduct research on evaluation; appeal will be conceptual and methodological. It will provide excellent supplementary reading for graduate students, many of whom seek to develop empirical studies on evaluation as part of their graduate programs. Rife with examples of participatory evaluation in practice, and practical implications, the book will also benefit evaluation practitioners with an interest in evaluation capacity building and participatory and collaborative approaches to practice.

Community-based Rehabilitation

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789241548052
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Community-based Rehabilitation written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.

Practical Evaluation Guide

Author : Judy Diamond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442263555
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Practical Evaluation Guide written by Judy Diamond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate, in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical Evaluation Guide discusses specific methods for analyzing audience learning and behavior in museums, zoos, botanic gardens, nature centers, camps, and youth programs. Evaluation is essential because it allows you to answer critical questions like: How can one measure the impacts of educational experiences in a museum, zoo, or aquarium? Are digital technologies more effective than traditional exhibits for enhancing visitor interest and understanding? How does one measure learning in these informal environments where visitors themselves decide what they will experience? Since we know many visitors come to informal institutions for social interaction and play, how does one access these social impacts? The Practical Evaluation Guide is an all-in-one resource to guide professionals working in museums and other informal educational institutions. This new edition includes updates throughout and features a brand-new chapter on evaluating digital interactive exhibits. The section on observational tools includes a new section on using video recordings and the section on interviews includes recent studies from countries outside the U.S. Practical Evaluation Guide serves as a basic, easy-to-follow guide for museum professionals and students who want to understand the effects of such public institutions on the people who visit them.