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Explains the evaluator's goals and methods and provides readers with the skills they need to review and participate in program evaluations. Using numerous examples and excerpts from programs that include students in all grades as well as adult, vocational, and continuing education, Fink covers such topics as setting standards of effectiveness, qualitative evaluation methods, selecting an evaluation design, analyzing data, and ways to budget an evaluation as well as ways to reduce costs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Arlene Fink presents an accessible step-by-step approach to educational and psychological programme evaluation. The book covers topics such as: setting standards of effectiveness; qualitative evaluation methods (including participatory evaluation); selecting an evaluation design; analyzing data (including how to read a computer printout); cost benefits; how to make a slide or transparency for an oral presentation; and ways to budget an evaluation.In addition, the book contains a number of useful aids including: a running example throughout so the reader can follow each step of an evaluation; an overview of each chapter and a reader's guide; illustrations of key concepts; guidelines for the use of expert panels, choosing a
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