Part 1: Essentials for your journey -- The evaluation capstone -- Working productively with your committee -- Part 2: Navigating the six fundamentals of evaluation practice -- Quality: Addressing professional evaluation standards and guidelines -- Stakeholders: Working with an evaluation client and other program stakeholders -- Understanding: Developing understanding of a program -- Values: Engaging values through evaluation purpose, questions, and criteria -- Approaches: Applying evaluation approaches -- Use: Maximizing evaluation use.
Summary:
"This practical, user-friendly resource helps students successfully complete an evaluation capstone: a dissertation, thesis, or culminating project where a student conducts an evaluation as their capstone experience. Authors Tamara M. Walser and Michael S. Trevisan present a framework to support students and faculty in maximizing student development of evaluator competencies, addressing standards of the evaluation profession, and contributing to programs and disciplinary knowledge. Their framework, and this book, is organized by six fundamentals of evaluation practice: quality; stakeholders; understanding the program; valuing; approaches; and maximizing evaluation use"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.