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Author : Bill Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889690585
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Creating a Culture of Evaluation written by Bill Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Claude Barbier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351296868
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Evaluation Cultures written by Jean-Claude Barbier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultures, as a framework for understanding how culture influences the work of evaluation. Two main conclusions seem to emerge: first, that there exists no single, uniform, and homogenous national evaluation culture; second, that the idea of a unified transnational culture of evaluation is an illusion.The evaluation community includes a diverse group of professionals; a diversity that is not just represented in national or ethnic culture but also in academic backgrounds, public and private sector allegiances, and personal character. The contributors to this book represent, in part, this diversity by reflecting a range of views.Evaluation Cultures draws upon the experience of senior evaluation practitioners, who share their reflections on their practice and experience, in order to put forth challenges to purely academic analysis. Evaluation Cultures presents a consistent, if not exhaustive, attempt to give analytical and empirical sense to all of the cultures of the evaluation community.
Author : Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364238174X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Open Learning Cultures written by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we are seeing a new form of blended learning: not only is technology enhancing the learning environment but formal and informal learning are combining and there is self- and peer-assessment of results. Open learning cultures are challenging the old and long-practiced methods used by educators and transforming learning into a more student-driven and independent activity , which uses online tools such as blogs, wikis or podcasts to connect resources, students and teachers in a novel way. While in higher education institutions most assessments are still tied to formal learning scenarios, teachers are more and more bound to recognize their students’ informal learning processes and networks. This book will help teachers, lecturers and students to better understand how open learning landscapes work, how to define quality and create assessments in such environments, and how to apply these new measures. To this end, Ehlers first elaborates the technological background for more collaborative, distributed, informal, and self-guided learning. He covers the rise of social media for learning and shows how an architecture of participation can change learning activities. These new paradigms are then applied to learning and education to outline what open learning landscapes look like. Here he highlights the shift from knowledge transfer to competence development, the increase in lifelong learning, and the importance of informal learning, user generated content, and open educational resources. He then shows how to manage quality by presenting a step by step guide to developing customized quality concepts for open learning landscapes. Finally, several methods dealing with assessment in these new environments are presented, including guidelines, templates and use cases to exemplify the approaches. Overall, Ehlers argues for assessment as an integral part of learning processes, with quality assurance as a method of stimulating a quality culture and continuous quality development rather than as a simple controlling exercise.
Author : Stafford Hood
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623969379
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Continuing the Journey to Reposition Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation Theory and Practice written by Stafford Hood and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their work. It is unacceptable for most mainstream university evaluation programs, philanthropic agencies, training institutes sponsored by federal agencies, professional associations, and other entities to promote professional evaluation practices that do not attend to CRE. Our global demographics are a reality that can be appropriately described and studied within the context of complexity theory and theory of change (e.g., Stewart, 1991; Battram, 1999). And this perspective requires a distinct shift from “simple” linear cause-effect models and reductionist thinking to include more holistic and culturally responsive approaches. The development of policy that is meaningfully responsive to the needs of traditionally disenfranchised stakeholders and that also optimizes the use of limited resources (human, natural, and financial) is an extremely complex process. Fortunately, we are presently witnessing developments in methods, instruments, and statistical techniques that are mixed methods in their paradigm/designs and likely to be more effective in informing policymaking and decision-making. Culturally responsive evaluation is one such phenomenon that positions itself to be relevant in the context of dynamic international and national settings where policy and program decisions take place. One example of a response to address this dynamic and need is the newly established Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CREA is an outgrowth of the collective work and commitments of a global community of scholars and practitioners who have contributed chapters to this edited volume. It is an international and interdisciplinary evaluation center that is grounded in the need for designing and conducting evaluations and assessments that embody cognitive, cultural, and interdisciplinary diversity so as to be actively responsive to culturally diverse communities and their aspirations. The Center’s purpose is to address questions, issues, theories, and practices related to CRE and culturally responsive educational assessment. Therefore, CREA can serve as a vehicle for our continuing discourse on culture and cultural context in evaluation and also as a point of dissemination for not only the work that is included in this edited volume, but for the subsequent work it will encourage.
Author : Jean-Claude Barbier
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141284892X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Evaluation CulturesSense-making in Complex Times written by Jean-Claude Barbier and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultures, as a framework for understanding how culture influences the work of evaluation. Two main conclusions seem to emerge: first, that there exists no single, uniform, and homogenous national evaluation culture; second, that the idea of a unified transnational culture of evaluation is an illusion. The evaluation community includes a diverse group of professionals; a diversity that is not just represented in national or ethnic culture but also in academic backgrounds, public and private sector allegiances, and personal character. The contributors to this book represent, in part, this diversity by reflecting a range of views. Evaluation Cultures draws upon the experience of senior evaluation practitioners, who share their reflections on their practice and experience, in order to put forth challenges to purely academic analysis. Evaluation Cultures presents a consistent, if not exhaustive, attempt to give analytical and empirical sense to all of the cultures of the evaluation community.
Author : María del Carmen Salazar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429820690
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Teacher Evaluation as Cultural Practice written by María del Carmen Salazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond the expectations and processes of conventional teacher evaluation, this book provides a framework for teacher evaluation that better prepares educators to serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners. Covering theory, research, and practice, María del Carmen Salazar and Jessica Lerner showcase a model to aid prospective and practicing teachers who are concerned with issues of equity, excellence, and evaluation. Introducing a comprehensive, five-tenet model, the book demonstrates how to place the needs of CLD learners at the center and offers concrete approaches to assess and promote cultural responsiveness, thereby providing critical insight into the role of teacher evaluation in confronting inequity. This book is intended to serve as a resource for those who are committed to the reconceptualization of teacher evaluation in order to better support CLD learners and their communities, while promoting cultural competence and critical consciousness for all learners.
Author : Stafford Hood
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607527839
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Role of Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation written by Stafford Hood and published by IAP. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation. We ask, should evaluation be culturally responsive? Is the field heading in the right direction in its attempt to become more culturally responsive? We ask, what is culturally responsive evaluation today and what might it become tomorrow? This edited volume does not promise to deliver answers to all, most, or even many of the complex answers facing the evaluation community regarding the role of culture and cultural context in evaluative theory and practice. This is not a scientific undertaking. We are not ready for concerns with prediction, explanation or control. We are ready for serious explorations, however. Even if the evaluation community cannot articulate the necessary and sufficient conditions for a culturally relevant evaluation it does know several of the desiderata. Our concern and the direction of this volume has been reflections of evaluation theory, history, and practice within the context of culture with illustrative examples.
Author : Thanh V. Tran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190496479
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation written by Thanh V. Tran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier edition published as: Developing cross-cultural measurement.
Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780630840
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Evaluation in Library and Information Services written by John Crawford and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book is written from the point of view of the practitioner, rather than the researcher. It presents current and recent work in the subject area in a way relevant to practitioners, researchers and students. The book includes practical examples of survey and research work and discusses honestly the practical difficulties involved. Aimed at an international audience, examples of good practice are drawn from a number of countries across the world. An up to date review/summary of activity in the subject area Provides international comparisons of library and information service evaluation activity Provides practical/real life research and survey data useful to practitioners and academics which they can apply in their own situations
Author : Erin Meyer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396715
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Culture Map (INTL ED) written by Erin Meyer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Author : Jill Anne Chouinard
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506368522
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation written by Jill Anne Chouinard and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues. Evaluations that explicitly aim to be more responsive to culture and cultural context are, however, a more recent phenomenon. In this book, Jill Anne Chouinard and Fiona Cram utilize a conceptual framework that foregrounds culture in social inquiry, and then uses that framework to analyze empirical studies across three distinct cultural domains of evaluation practice (Western, Indigenous and international development). Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation provide a comparative analysis of these studies and discuss lessons drawn from them in order to help evaluators extend their current thinking and practice. They conclude with an agenda for future research.
Author : Sonja Sackmann
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
ISBN 13 : 3867932352
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Assessment, Evaluation, Improvement: Success through Corporate Culture written by Sonja Sackmann and published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by Prof. Dr. Sonja Sackmann, University Bw, Munich, provides an overview of state-of-the-art knowledge with regard to the link between corporate culture and performance as well as approaches that have been used to assess and measure culture in organizations. It discusses different understandings of culture and how they lead to different ways of assessing it. Current methods of culture assessment are compared. The comparison is arranged according to the respective focus on the cultural layer of analyses (e.g., norms, values, beliefs, and assumptions), the origin of dimensions and the purpose of assessment. Most of these approaches are single-method instruments. Along with multiplemethod approaches, they are described and discussed individually, followed by a short assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, the report provides a more general evaluation of issues related to the assessment of culture and its link to performance, as well as the most promising approaches. These considerations lead to recommendations for the assessment of corporate culture with links to performance.
Author : Mary Odell Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315428881
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Evaluation written by Mary Odell Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of budgetary belt-tightening, policymakers must prove that their programs work or face drastic cuts in spending. This book, informed by the author’s many years of practice in program evaluation and expertise as an anthropologist, discusses in plain prose the theory and methods of culturally-competent evaluation across a number of disciplines, such as health and education, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals. The book-guides readers through the process of evaluation in complex contexts created by cultural change, the movement of populations, economic forces and constantly emerging crises;-introduces rich ethnographic theory and methods developed by anthropologists to evaluators in other fields;-teaches anthropologists and other social scientists research techniques developed in such fields as business or public-policy evaluation;-provides a strategy for building evidence from both qualitative and quantitative sources to form conclusions that have scientific credibility.
Author : Rodney Hopson
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book In Search of Cultural Competence in Evaluation Toward Principles and Practices written by Rodney Hopson and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on culturally competent evaluation. The chapters address a number of questions: How does culture matter in evaluation theory and practice? How does attention to cultural issues make for better evaluation practice? How does attention to cultural issues make for better evaluation practice? What is the "value-addedness" of cultural competence in evaluation? How do the complexities, challenges, and politics of diversity issue affect evaluation? The first chapter is an overview of culture, cultural competence, and culturally competent evaluation; the other chapters provide case studies on the implementation of culturally competent evaluation in a variety of settings and with several populations. The volume contributors also present lessons learned from their experiences and recommendations for implementing cultural competent evaluations in general. This volume is part of an important discussion of race, culture, and diversity in evaluation striving to shape and advance culturally competent evaluation, and, in tandem, evaluation of culturally competent services. This is the 102nd issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Evaluation.
Author : Dr. Marianne R. Jeffreys, EdD, RN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826119972
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care, Third Edition written by Dr. Marianne R. Jeffreys, EdD, RN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the Second Edition: "This book will help educators understand the multidimensional process of cultural competence, and the vignettes it provides will be useful to anyone who teaches cultural competence." -- Nursing Education Perspectives Based on proven research, this textbook is a unique “how-to” for nursing faculty called upon to educate students, nurses, and other health care providers on how to provide optimal care for culturally diverse populations. It offers a systematic approach featuring ready-to-use materials for planning, implementing, and evaluating cultural competence education strategies and programs. A wealth of practical information on all aspects of culturally competent communication and treatment—in both classroom and workplace settings--is supplemented with an assessment and evaluation toolkit that can be adapted for all educational levels. The third edition is reorganized to facilitate the incorporation of cultural competence into a greater variety of environments, and provides additional examples and case studies to better illustrate content. Updated and revised information, research findings, and expanded ready-to-apply strategies and exemplars are woven throughout all chapters. New and expanded chapters address curriculum; traditional classrooms, hybrid, and online courses; and clinical settings, immersion experiences, service learning, simulation, and nursing skills lab. Included are educational activities for academic, clinical, and professional association settings. Integrated reflection boxes, easy-to-apply action steps, toolkit resource boxes, references, and discussion questions help students to fully integrate the book’s content. The text fulfills Cultural Competence accreditation requirements for undergraduate nursing programs and for institutions trying to obtain Magnet Status. New to the Third Edition: Reorganized to address cultural competence in a variety of environments Expanded ready-to-apply strategies and exemplars A wealth of updated and revised information and research New and expanded chapters on curriculum and varied learning modalities New information on clinical settings, immersion experiences, service learning, simulation, and nursing skills lab Reflection boxes, easy-to-apply action steps, toolkit resource boxes, and discussion questions Also available: For PhD students, instructors, institutions, and others who want to take it a step further, can purchase The Cultural Competence Education Resource Toolkit. This product contains questionnaires and evaluation methods for a variety of environments, and will enable the use to assess cultural competence in a group of individuals, and a means to achieve optimal cultural competence. For more information, go to www.springerpub.com/cctoolkit .
Author : Ya'nan Wang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811007306
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Annual Evaluation Report of China's Cultural Consumption Demand written by Ya'nan Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering contributions by leading social development scholars, this report offers a comprehensive description of the national development of cultural consumption in China. By comparing the annual growth of cultural consumption, GDP growth, per-capita income growth and savings growth, the authors reveal the disparity between urban and rural areas in terms of cultural consumption, as well as that between provinces. Based on an analysis of the status quo of cultural consumption in China, the book explores the road to a prosperous society and enhancing China’s cultural development.
Author : M. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113731379X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Culture written by M. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From which evaluative base should we develop policies designed to promote wellbeing among different cultural groups in varying circumstances? This book engages with needs and capabilities to advance normative functionalist assessment of the success with which cultural institutions promote eudaemonic wellbeing in given, determinate circumstances.
