Personalizing evaluation
"Personalizing Evaluation challenges common assumptions in program evaluation by inverting the traditional relationship between program and person. Rather than emphasize the program as the context within which to 'read' people's lives and to measure their significance, we should document individual and group experience and use this as a lens through which to read social programs and to measure their significance in people's lives. This is a marriage of democratic and participatory evaluation approaches, exploring their complexities." "Using a wealth of examples and case studies to illustrate how a deeper understanding of program evaluation can be achieved across a range of issues and applications, the book addresses three principal concerns that are at the heart of the evaluation process: to learn about the conduct of evaluation through accounts of the often confusing and messy experience of doing it; to understand the role of evaluation as a form of personal expression and political action; and to find ways of holding policy and program to account for how they represent people's lives, work and ambitions." "Personalizing Education will be a valuable read for beginning researchers, postgraduate students using evaluation and qualitative methods and research supervisors."--BOOK JACKET
Case studies
xv, 223 pages ; 24 cm
9780761963615, 9780761963622, 0761963618, 0761963626
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OVERTURE: Program Evaluation: The Heart of the Matter
Personalizing Program Evaluation
Love and Death and Program Evaluation
Evaluation and a Philosophy of Individualism
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Evaluation Interviewing
To Have and Have Not: Critical Distance and Emotional Proximity
Essences, Contexts, and Transitions: the Individual at the Margins of the Program
Ethical Space, Mortality and the Conduct of Evaluation
People in Change
CODA: Robert Campbell and Cultural Standards in Curriculum Evaluation