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Summary of “Program Evaluation” ch 8, Participant-Oriented
Chapter 8 of Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen’s text Program Evaluation covers participant-oriented approaches to evaluation. Such approaches seek to focus on “the human element” and include diverse voices not typically expressed in more standard evaluation approaches or models. Stake’s countenance framework describes the evaluatee and attempts to judge its value or worth. The illuminative model [...]
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Summary of “Program Evaluation” chs 4 – 7
Last week I read four core chapters from Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen’s text Program Evaluation that dealt with major theoretical models and approaches to evaluation, including Objectives-Oriented (71 – 87), Management-Oriented (88 – 99), Consumer-Oriented (100 – 111), and Expertise-Oriented (112 – 128). Each of these chapters outlined major thinkers and practitioners who shaped the [...]
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Reconsidering dotProject
(This is a copy of a post made earlier at http://jaredstein.org) We’ve used dotProject in my Instructional Design Services unit for almost two years. dP is an open source project management and task tracking tool that has benefited our unit organizationally, and has helped us follow-through on projects in a more efficient manner. It has [...]
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Summary of “Program Evaluation” ch 14