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Author : Alexis Lee Kaminsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Participatory Evaluation in Hierarchies written by Alexis Lee Kaminsky and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Fetterman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462532837
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation written by David M. Fetterman and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluations are stakeholder involvement approaches to evaluation. They address concerns about relevance, trust, and use in evaluation. They also build capacity and respond to pressing evaluation needs in the global community. The chapters in this book are designed to help further distinguish one approach from another. The essentials of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation are presented in separate chapters in order to help practitioners compare and contrast approaches. In addition, case examples are used to illustrate what each approach looks like in practice"--
Author : Linda Arlene Pursley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Empowerment and Utilization Through Participatory Evaluation written by Linda Arlene Pursley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail J. Fults
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351984810
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book How Participatory Evaluation Research Affects the Management Control Process of a Multinational Nonprofit Organization written by Gail J. Fults and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1993, addresses two questions: can evaluation research function as a surrogate market in non-profit organisations to measure, value, and assess the goods and services they provide? And second, can the findings from an evaluation process be incorporated as a service accomplishment element into the accounting information published by non-profit organisations? This title will be of interest to students of business studies.
Author : Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317787331
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions written by Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program evaluations are more relevant when conducted by the people directly involved in the programs and members of the communities they serve. Learn how empowerment and participatory evaluation can help community programs deliver more effective services! With this book, you’ll examine theoretical models, empirical investigations, and case studies that highlight important aspects of empowerment and participatory evaluation in community programs. The first half of the book presents frameworks and tools for empowerment and participatory evaluation, with an emphasis on transferring skills and building capacity. The remaining chapters examine specific efforts to implement empowerment and participatory evaluation with a range of stakeholders, highlighting the ways in which community members collaborated with evaluators and were actively engaged in the evaluation process. Covering various types of evaluations across a range of urgent social issues, this book offers practical steps for implementing evaluations and presents theoretical models as well as applied examples. The issues that Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions addresses include: challenges faced by community-based organizations in conducting evaluations of their initiatives—and solutions to those challenges, including the creation and implementation of an appropriate outcomes model ways to build capacity for participatory evaluation within community initiatives ways to promote the success and accountability of community programs how collaborative process evaluation can improve HIV prevention services evaluation techniques that illustrate the benefits of a collaborative approach—with a case study of the Conflict Resolution in Schools Programs a pilot study in which empowerment evaluation principles are used to evaluate the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago’s Youth Leadership Training Series (a program designed to train youth volunteers) Presenting important information on program evaluation, community-based interventions and community empowerment, empowerment/participatory evaluation, community psychology, collaborative partnerships, program improvement, utilization-focused evaluation, consultation, and more, Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions is a resource that everyone involved in community psychology should have!
Author : Shannon Faris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313005168
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Developing Non-Hierarchical Leadership on Campus written by Shannon Faris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many problems that plague modern American society, including disappearance of community, decaying inner cities, racial tensions, environmental degradation, declining civic engagement, and the increasing ineffectiveness of government, to name a few, are in many respects problems of leadership. Leadership means not only what elected and appointed public officials do, but also the critically important civic work performed by those individual citizens who are actively engaged in making a positive difference in society. Clearly, one of the major problems with contemporary civic life in America is that too few of our citizens are actively engaged in efforts to effect positive social change. Educators seldom acknowledge higher education's possible contribution to these problems or the role that it might play in alleviating them. Colleges and universities provide rich opportunities for developing leaders through the curriculum and co-curriculum. Co-curricular experiences not only support and augment the students' formal classroom and curricular experience, but can also create powerful learning opportunities for leadership development through collaborative group projects that serve the institution or the community. These projects can be implemented through service learning, residential living, community work, and student organizations. In the first section, Alexander W. Astin and Helen S. Astin, two of the most influential authors in education and co-principal investigators for the research team that devised Social Change Model of Leadership Development, share their insights on the model they helped create. Also in this section, other leading theoreticians offer provocative and challenging insights into non-hierarchical leadership. The second section features case studies and other examples from the practical realm. Contributions come from a wide array of programs and institutions, from community colleges to Ivy League institutions to urban public universities. Because campuses are increasingly diverse, leadership programs must not only acknowledge but embrace the multiplicity of identities personified in their students. Accordingly, the next section offers essays and case studies on complex issues of intersection of leadership and identity. The book concludes with two chapters essential for those seeking to access leadership development: one focusing on the need for assessment, the other containing an account of the first-ever instrument designed specifically to access non-hierarchical leadership, written by the creator of this instrument.
Author : Lorna M. Earl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135718857
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Participatory Evaluation In Education written by Lorna M. Earl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines "participatory evaluation" which involves teachers and educational administrators along with researchers in a range of education- based evaluation tasks with the aim of improving quality. Topics covered include variations in the approach, its viability and its likely impact.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0889368953
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Learning from Change written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2000 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from Change provides an overview of the common themes and experiences in participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation across different institutions and sectors. It is a compilation of selected case studies and discussions between practitioners, academics, donors, and policymakers in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E). It explores conceptual, methodological, institutional, and policy issues that need to be addressed to enrich our understanding and practice of PM&E. The book is in three sections. The first provides a general overview of PM&E, synthesizing literature surveys and regional reviews of PM&E practice around the world. The second presents case studies that illustrate the diverse range of settings and contexts in which PM&E is being applied. The third raises the key issues and challenges arising from the case studies and discussions, and proposes areas for future research and action. Learning from Change will be an important reference for development professionals worldwide as well as for anyone interested in the process of participatory development, including researchers, academics, fieldworkers, development practitioners, and policymakers.
Author : Yoland Wadsworth
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1611321018
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Building In Research and Evaluation written by Yoland Wadsworth and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer researcher Yoland Wadsworth offers a fresh and unique perspective on a core question. How to do research that truly enables human service professionals and organisations to do their work effectively?
Author : Michael A. Hogg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047099844X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology written by Michael A. Hogg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. The topics covered include group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health. Provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. Written by leading researchers from around the world to provide a classic and current overview of research as well as providing a description of future trends within the area. Includes coverage of group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health. Essential reading for any serious scholar of group behavior. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com
Author : Tim Swanwick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118472381
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Understanding Medical Education written by Tim Swanwick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and extensively updated second edition, the Association for the Study of Medical Education presents a complete and authoritative guide to medical education. Written by leading experts in the field, Understanding Medical Education provides a comprehensive resource of the theoretical and academic bases to modern medical education practice. This authoritative and accessible reference is designed to meet the needs of all those working in medical education from undergraduate education through postgraduate training to continuing professional development. As well as providing practical guidance for clinicians, teachers and researchers, Understanding Medical Education will prove an invaluable resource to those studying at certificate, diploma or masters level and a first ‘port-of-call’ for anyone engaged in medical education as an academic discipline. Exploring medical education in all its diversity and containing all you need in one place, Understanding Medical Education is the ideal reference not only for medical educators, but for anyone involved in the development of healthcare professionals, in whatever discipline wherever they are in the world.
Author : J. Bradley Cousins
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617358037
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)
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 309 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.
Author : Louis Meuleman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790820547
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets written by Louis Meuleman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public managers can, to a certain extent, choose between various mana- ment paradigms which are provided by public and business administration scholars and by politicians as well. How do they find their way in this c- fusing supermarket of competing ideas? This book explores how public managers in Western bureaucracies deal with the mutually undermining ideas of hierarchical, network and market governance. Do they possess a specific logic of action, a rationale, when they combine and switch - tween these governance styles? This chapter sets the scene for the book as a whole and presents the - search topic and the research question. 1.1 Problem setting Since the Second World War, Western public administration systems have changed drastically. The hierarchical style of governing of the 1950s to the 1970s was partly replaced by market mechanisms, from the 1980s - wards. In the 1990s, a third style of governing, based on networks, further enriched the range of possible steering, coordination and organisation - terventions. In the new millennium, public sector organisations seem to apply complex and varying mixtures of all three styles of what we will - fine as governance in a broad sense. This development has brought about two problems.
Author : Anh Duc Do
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Evaluation of lecturers’ performance using a novel hierarchical multi-criteria model based on an interval complex Neutrosophic set written by Anh Duc Do and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance assessment of teaching competency plays an important role in educational activities. Previous assessments of lecturers’ performance have failed to distinguish between potential capacity and their teaching effectiveness. To solve this problem, the integrated approach of quantitative assessment and multi-criteria decision-making models has become one of the main trends for assessing the performance of lecturers in multiple dimensions: self, peer-,manager- and student-based evaluation. This paper proposes a novel hierarchical approach, developed by the Technique for Order preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method in an interval-valued complex neutrosophic set environment, to more accurately and comprehensively understand the evaluation process and fit it into a systematic framework. An application is given to illustrate a practical solution in lecturer’s evaluation. The accuracy of the proposed method is verified by comparing with other methods.
Author : Daniel Schmoldt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401597995
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making written by Daniel Schmoldt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business, energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation, more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the authors to collect some of the important works in this area and present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on management science and decision analysis for forest resources.
Author : Yoland Wadsworth
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1611321042
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Everyday Evaluation on the Run, Third Edition written by Yoland Wadsworth and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used introduction to evaluation is a practical, no-nonsense guide for busy program staff in human services who are asked to conduct evaluations without any previous training. The book offers a practical overview of the main approaches to evaluation, strategies for involving stakeholders, and the evaluation industry's toolbox of models and techniques.
Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317291425
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Participatory Evaluation in Youth and Community Work written by Susan Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation is an essential element of professional practice. However, there is little in the literature that is designed to help students involve and support young people in evaluating the impact of youth work activities. This comprehensive book explores current thinking about evaluation in the context of youth work and community work and offers both theoretical understanding and practical guidance for students, practitioners, organisational leaders and commissioners. Part 1 provides underpinning knowledge of the origins, purpose and functions of evaluation. It charts the developments in evaluation thinking over the past 50 years, and includes an exploration of ‘theory of change’. Concepts such as impact, impact measurement and shared measurement are critically examined to illustrate the political nature of evaluation. Findings from empirical research are used to illuminate the challenges of applying a quasi-experimental paradigm of evaluation of youth and community work. Part 2 introduces the reader to participatory evaluation and presents an overview of the histories, rationale and underpinning principles. Empowerment evaluation, collaborative evaluation and democratic evaluation are examined in detail, including practice examples. Transformative Evaluation, an approach specifically designed for youth and community work, is presented. Part 3 focuses on the ‘doing’ of participatory evaluation and offers guidance to those new to participatory evaluation in youth and community work and a helpful check for those already engaging. It provides valuable information on planning, methods, data and data analysis and processes for sharing knowledge. This essential text will enable the reader to reconstruct evaluation as a tool for learning as well as a tool for judging value. It provides a comprehensive reference, drawing on a wide range of literature and practice examples to support those involved in youth and community work to develop and implement participatory approaches to evaluating and communicating the meaning and value of youth and community work to a wider audience.
