Description: Program Evaluation: An Introduction.- Program Evaluation: A Historical Overview.- Models, Metaphors, and Definitions in Evaluation.- Foundational Models for 21st Century Program Evaluation.- Questions/Methods-Oriented Evaluation Models.- A Rationale for Program Evaluation.- Outcome Evaluation.- The Role of Testing in Evaluations.- The Discrepancy Evaluation Model.- The Role of Field Trials in Evaluating School Practices: A Rare Design.- Cost Analysis for Improved Educational Policymaking and Evaluation.- The Clarification Hearing: A Personal View of the Process.- Case Study Evaluations: A Decade of Progress?.- Educational Criticism as a form of Qualitative Inquiry.- Program Theory: Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work.- Improvement/Accountability-Oriented Evaluation Models.- Course Improvement through Evaluation.- Evaluation Ideologies.- The CIPP Model for Evaluation.- Accountability: Implications for State and Local Policymakers.- Social Agenda-Directed (Advocacy) Models.- Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation.- Epistemological and Methodological Bases of Naturalistic Inquiry.- Developing Discourses on Evaluation.- Steps of Empowerment Evaluation: From California to Cape Town.- Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice.- Overarching Matters.- Utilization-focused Evaluation.- Professional Standards and Principles for Evaluations.- The Methodology of Metaevaluation.

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