Creative Ideas For Teaching Evaluation

Introduction: Practical and Theoretical Framework.- I Conceptualizing and Planning an Evaluation.- 1 Constructing an Operational Evaluation Design.- 2 Conceptualizing Evaluation: The Key Evaluation Checklist.- 3 Journal Writing in Evaluation.- 4 Field Experiences in Evaluation Courses.- 5 Identifying the Evaluation and Its Usefulness.- 6 Evaluability Assessment.- 7 Evaluation Questions and Methods.- 8 Alternative Evaluation Data Collection Techniques.- 9 Establishing Evaluation Boundaries.- 10 Alternative Models for Evaluation.- 11 Planning a Discrepancy-Based Evaluation.- II Qualitative Methods in Evaluation.- 12 Naturalistic Interviewing.- 13 Critical Issues in Participant Observation.- 14 Naturalistic Data Collection: Case Study Discussion.- 15 "Trustworthiness" in Naturalistic Inquiry: Audit Trails.- 16 Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation.- 17 Writing and Interpreting Ethnographic Protocols.- 18 The Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data.- 19 Understanding Content Analysis Through the Sunday Comics.- 20 Using Case Records.- III Needs Assessment.- 21 Collection Techniques for Needs Assessment.- 22 A Quick Look at the Nominal Group Technique.- 23 Developing Focus Group Questions for Needs Assessment.- IV Proposal Writing.- 24 Proposal Writing in Early Childhood Special Education.- 25 Responding to an Informal Request to Evaluate: Writing a Proposal.- V Personnel Evaluation.- 26 A Hands-On Experience in Clinical Supervision.- 27 Tensions and Accommodations Among Administrators and Teachers about Staff Appraisal.- VI Issues in Evaluation: Reporting, Utilization, and Ethics.- 28 Information Portrayal and Use.- 29 Ethics and Evaluation: Problems, Issues and Usefulness.- VII Policy Analysis.- 30 Policy/Goal Percentaging.- VIII The Evaluator's Tools: Statistics, Measurement, and Computers.- 31 Statistical Software Expert System.- 32 Charting Student Progress.- 33 Activities for Teaching Regression to the Mean.- 34 Using Microcomputer Database Management