Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society

A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin (HC)

192 Seiten, Hardcover

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A volume in Evaluation and SocietySeries Editors, Jennifer C. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignand Stewart I. Donaldson, Claremont Graduate UniversityThis volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field - the useof evaluation information for decision-making. Chapter authors honor the contributions of ProfessorMarvin C. Alkin to the evaluation use literature and advance our thinking on the topic byexploring a wide range of issues related to the theoretical and practical challenges of using evaluationinformation to make informed, evidence-based decisions. Readers will come away fromthis volume with a new and clearer understanding of the theoretical, contextual, methodological,and political dimensions of use and with direction for practice. Chapters are written by leadingevaluation scholars, including Ernest House; Stewart Donaldson and Tarek Azzam; EricBarela; Richard D. Nunneley, Jr., Jean A. King, Kelli Johnson, and Laura Pejsa; Eleanor Chelimsky;Michael Quinn Patton; and Wanda D. Casillas, Rodney K. Hopson and Ricardo L.Gomez.Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin will be of great interest to evaluation students, scholarsand practitioners. This volume has scholarly application for those who desire a state-of-the-art resource for the latest insights and perspectiveson one of the most pressing issues that the evaluation field faces today, while also serving as a useful guide for both noviceand experienced evaluation practitioners. It is appropriate for use in a variety of evaluation courses including Introduction to Evaluationand Procedural Issues in Evaluation as well as topical seminars such as Evaluation Use and Decision-Making.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781681230054
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2015
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Christina A. Christie, Anne T. Vo