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Автор: Gingras Yves
Название: Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses
ISBN: 026203512X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262035125
Издательство: MIT Press
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Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.

The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything -- teachers, professors, training programs, universities -- using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure "research excellence," bibliometrics -- aggregate data on publications and citations -- has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an "objective" measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than "subjective" and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to.

Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy.

Автор: James C. McDavid, Lisa Wyatt Knowlton
Название: BUNDLE: McDavid: Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement 2e + Knowlton: The Logic Model Guidebook 2e
ISBN: 1452278644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452278643
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Offers an accessible, practical introduction to program evaluation and performance measurement for public and non-profit organizations. This book offers step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts.

Автор: Marlene Laubli Loud
Название: BUNDLE: Laubli Loud: Enhancing Evaluation Use + King: Interactive Evaluation Practice
ISBN: 1452291411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452291413
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Описание: Buy Together and SaveMarlene Laubli Loud, John Mayne, Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation UnitsEnhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units concentrates on evaluations carried out by and/or on behalf of governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its aim is to help organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services. Existing theories of how this should be done are compared with the practical experiences of a range of national and international, government and non-governmental agencies. The book is written from the insider's perspective on what helps or hinders making evaluations more relevant and useful to organizations and their needs.Jean A. King, Laurie Stevahn, Interactive Evaluation Practice: Mastering the Interpersonal Dynamics of Program Evaluation You're about to start your first evaluation project. Where do you begin? Or you're a practicing evaluator faced with a challenging situation. How do you proceed? How do you handle the interactive components and processes inherent in evaluation practice?Use Interactive Evaluation Practice to bridge the gap between the theory of evaluation and its practice. Taking an applied approach, this book provides readers with specific interactive skills needed in different evaluation settings and contexts. The authors illustrate multiple options for developing skills and choosing strategies, systematically highlighting the evaluator's three roles as decision maker, actor, and reflective practitioner. Case studies and interactive examples stimulate thinking about how to apply interactive skills across a variety of evaluation situations.Need help finding the bundle that will best meet your course goals? Contact your Sales Representative.

Автор: Marlene Laubli Loud
Название: BUNDLE: Laubli Loud: Enhancing Evaluation Use + Patton: Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
ISBN: 1452291403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452291406
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Описание: Buy Together and SaveMarlene Laubli Loud, John Mayne, Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation UnitsEnhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units concentrates on evaluations carried out by and/or on behalf of governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its aim is to help organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services. Existing theories of how this should be done are compared with the practical experiences of a range of national and international, government and non-governmental agencies. The book is written from the insider's perspective on what helps or hinders making evaluations more relevant and useful to organizations and their needs.Michael Quinn Patton, Essentials of Utilization-Focused EvaluationBased on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts. The book integrates theory and practice, is based on both research and professional experience, and offers new case examples and cartoons with Patton's signature humor. Need help finding the bundle that will best meet your course goals? Contact your Sales Representative.

Автор: Marlene Laubli Loud
Название: BUNDLE: Laubli Loud: Enhancing Evaluation Use + Wyatt Knowlton: The Logic Model Guidebook 2e
ISBN: 1452291438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452291437
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Описание: Buy Together and SaveMarlene Laubli Loud, John Mayne, Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation UnitsEnhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units concentrates on evaluations carried out by and/or on behalf of governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its aim is to help organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services. Existing theories of how this should be done are compared with the practical experiences of a range of national and international, government and non-governmental agencies. The book is written from the insider's perspective on what helps or hinders making evaluations more relevant and useful to organizations and their needs.Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Cynthia C. Phillips, The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results, Second EditionThe Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a robust tool to improve the design, development, and implementation of program and organization change efforts. The text is enhanced by numerous visual learning guides (sample models, checklists, exercises, worksheets) and many new case examples. The authors provide students, practitioners, and beginning researchers with practical support to develop and improve models that reflect knowledge, practice, and beliefs. The Guidebook offers a range of new applied examples. The text includes logic models for evaluation, discusses archetypes, and explores display and meaning. In an important contribution to programs and organizations, it emphasizes quality by raising issues like plausibility, feasibility, and strategic choices in model creation.Need help finding the bundle that will best meet your course goals? Contact your Sales Representative.

Автор: Marlene Laubli Loud
Название: BUNDLE: Laubli Loud: Enhancing Evaluation Use + Alkin: Evaluation Roots 2e
ISBN: 145229142X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452291420
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Buy Together and SaveMarlene Laubli Loud, John Mayne, Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation UnitsEnhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units concentrates on evaluations carried out by and/or on behalf of governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its aim is to help organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services. Existing theories of how this should be done are compared with the practical experiences of a range of national and international, government and non-governmental agencies. The book is written from the insider's perspective on what helps or hinders making evaluations more relevant and useful to organizations and their needs.Marvin C. Alkin, Evaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists' Views and Influences, Second EditionEvaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists' Views and Influences, Second Edition, provides a contemporary examination of evaluation theories and traces their evolution. Marvin C. Alkin shows how theories are related to one another, especially in terms of how new theories build on existing ideas. The way in which these evaluation "roots" grow to form a tree helps provide readers with a better understanding of evaluation theory. In addition to the editor's overview, the book contains essays by leading evaluation theorists that describe the evaluators' personal theories and how they were developed.Need help finding the bundle that will best meet your course goals? Contact your Sales Representative.

Автор: Rossi, Peter H. Lipsey, Mark W. Henry, Gary T.
Название: Evaluation
ISBN: 1506386601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781506386607
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Evaluation: A Systematic Approach is the bestselling comprehensive introduction to the field of programme evaluation.

Автор: Mertens Donna M.
Название: Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation
ISBN: 1506330657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781506330655
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: In Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation, the first volume of SAGE′s Evaluation in Practice Series, best-selling author Donna M. Mertens explores the meaning of mixed methods evaluation, its evolution over the last few decades, and the dominant philosophical frameworks that are influencing thought and practice in the field today. Four chapters explore evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions, development of instruments, systematic reviews, and policy evaluations, while an additional chapter covers evaluation approaches often required in specific contexts including gender responsive evaluations, needs assessment, and evaluations in conflict zones. Practical in nature, the book guides readers' thinking about the design of mixed methods evaluations through the use of illustrative examples and explanations for further applications.

Автор: Levin Henry M., McEwan Patrick J., Belfield Clive
Название: Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis
ISBN: 1483381803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483381800
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their return on investment in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.

Автор: Trevisan Michael S., Walser Tamara M.
Название: Evaluability Assessment: Improving Evaluation Quality and Use
ISBN: 1452282447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452282442
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Provides a practical, up-to-date treatment of evaluability assessment (EA) focused on application, and capturing the multidisciplinary appeal of EA with case studies from different disciplines.

Автор: Fetterman David M., Kaftarian Shakeh, Wandersman A
Название: Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability
ISBN: 1452299536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452299532
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: In this volume, evaluators from a wide range of backgrounds assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the first edition in 1996, looking at theories and concepts, as well as evaluation principles.

Название: Enhancing Evaluation Use
ISBN: 1452205477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452205472
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Written from the insider`s perspective, this text helps organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services