The Program Evaluation Standards: 2nd Edition How to Assess Evaluations of Educational Programs

By Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation and James R. Sanders

Book Overview

"The Second Edition provides evaluators and users of evaluation with practical guidelines for planning, implementing, and judging evaluations in educational and social programming. This new edition is further strengthened by more diverse illustrative cases, a supporting bibliography, and guidelines that reflect some of the changes that have occurred in evaluation over the past decade. Its wide appeal for seasoned practitioners, as well as for those less experienced, suggests that the second edition will continue to make a significant contribution to the preparation and practice of evaluators and administrators working in educational and social program evaluation."-JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT

"Although they were developed primarily for the field of education, these standards can be applied to a broader range of evaluation settings. The Program Evaluation Standards offer a pragmatic, ′how-to,′ user-friendly guide to program evaluation. We found that simply reading the standards for evaluation is an excellent training exercise for legislative program evaluators. Basing formal staff training on the evaluation standards may be more effective. Actual implementation of the standards in ongoing projects would constitute a sound basis for ensuring quality and uniformity of program evaluations. We strongly encourage you to at least explore these standards for use in your organization." -Linda Triplett and Kathleen Sullivan in NLPES NEWS

Aimed at providing a guide for evaluating educational and training programs, projects, and materials in a variety of settings, these 30 standards within The Program Evaluation Standards were compiled by the Joint Committee from knowledge gained from the professional literature as well as from years of experience by educators and evaluation specialists. The 30 standards are categorized into four groups corresponding to the four attributes of sound and fair program evaluation: utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. Each standard is accompanied by an overview of intent, guidelines for application, common errors, and one or more case illustrations of the standard′s application.

The book also includes information on how to use the standards in terms of the major tasks of a program evaluation: deciding whether to evaluate; designing an evaluation; collecting information; analyzing information; and reporting, budgeting, contracting, managing, and staffing an evaluation. Anyone who commissions or conducts an evaluation, or who uses evaluation results to improve education and training in schools, universities, medical and health care fields, the military, business and industry, the government, and law will find these NEW standards a "must-have" tool.

Sponsored by The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation consisting of: American Association of School Administrators, American Educational Research Association, American Evaluation Association, American Federation of Teachers, American Psychological Association, Association for Assessment in Counseling, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Canadian Evaluation Society, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Council of Chief State School Officers, Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Council on Measurement in Education, National Education Association, National School Boards Association

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803957327
• ISBN13: 9780803957329
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Easy to understand what's important

This book was on the required list for a doctoral course. I loved the easy reading style of the text, not as dry as many of my other books. The authors clearly explained the JCSEE standards and made my project for that course easy.

All the evaluation standards in a nutshell

This was a required text for a graduate course I was taking, and it will make an good addition to my professional library. The authors have compiled a concise review of each evaluation standard with the rationale behind each standard into one tool. It is not an in-depth analysis of evaluation standards or the history of the development of the standards. This book's strength is in its layout and brevity; I can find exactly what I am looking for when I need it.