Author: Egon G. Guba
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803932357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher's description: Fourth Generation Evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. Guba and Lincoln point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators--politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions--and lay the blame for failure and nonutilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research. Fourth Generation Evaluation, a more informed and sophisticated approach, moves beyond science to include the myriad human, political, social, cultural, and contextual elements that are involved. Based upon relativism, a unity between knower and known, and a subjective epistemology, the authors show how fourth generation evaluation unites the evaluator and the stakeholders in an interaction that creates the product of the evaluation. Differing from previously existing generations, this new approach moves evaluation to a new level, whose key dynamic is negotiation. The constructivist paradigm is espoused by the authors and shown to offer multiple advantages, including empowerment and enfranchisement of stakeholders, as well as an action orientation that defines a course to be followed. Not merely a treatise on evaluation theory, Guba and Lincoln also comprehensively describe the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research, and provide a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation.
Fourth Generation Evaluation
Author: Egon G. Guba
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803932357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher's description: Fourth Generation Evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. Guba and Lincoln point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators--politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions--and lay the blame for failure and nonutilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research. Fourth Generation Evaluation, a more informed and sophisticated approach, moves beyond science to include the myriad human, political, social, cultural, and contextual elements that are involved. Based upon relativism, a unity between knower and known, and a subjective epistemology, the authors show how fourth generation evaluation unites the evaluator and the stakeholders in an interaction that creates the product of the evaluation. Differing from previously existing generations, this new approach moves evaluation to a new level, whose key dynamic is negotiation. The constructivist paradigm is espoused by the authors and shown to offer multiple advantages, including empowerment and enfranchisement of stakeholders, as well as an action orientation that defines a course to be followed. Not merely a treatise on evaluation theory, Guba and Lincoln also comprehensively describe the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research, and provide a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803932357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher's description: Fourth Generation Evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. Guba and Lincoln point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators--politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions--and lay the blame for failure and nonutilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research. Fourth Generation Evaluation, a more informed and sophisticated approach, moves beyond science to include the myriad human, political, social, cultural, and contextual elements that are involved. Based upon relativism, a unity between knower and known, and a subjective epistemology, the authors show how fourth generation evaluation unites the evaluator and the stakeholders in an interaction that creates the product of the evaluation. Differing from previously existing generations, this new approach moves evaluation to a new level, whose key dynamic is negotiation. The constructivist paradigm is espoused by the authors and shown to offer multiple advantages, including empowerment and enfranchisement of stakeholders, as well as an action orientation that defines a course to be followed. Not merely a treatise on evaluation theory, Guba and Lincoln also comprehensively describe the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research, and provide a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation.
Fourth Generation Evaluation
Author: E. Cuba
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Languages : en
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4th generation evaluation
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Fourth Generation Evaluation Revisited
Author: Debra Alvenia Miller
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Category : Educational evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Educational evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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"Having a Say"
Author: Tina Koch
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Category : Evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Category : Evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Fourth-generation Systems
Author: Simon Holloway
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ISBN: 9787506212120
Category : Fourth generation computers
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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ISBN: 9787506212120
Category : Fourth generation computers
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Evaluating Social Programs and Problems
Author: Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113563632X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book presents visions of how to solve social problems in the 21st century and how programs SHOULD be evaluated, not how they will be evaluated.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113563632X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book presents visions of how to solve social problems in the 21st century and how programs SHOULD be evaluated, not how they will be evaluated.
Effective Evaluation
Author: Egon G. Guba
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Category : Evaluation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Evaluation of a Fourth-generation Language for Application Development and Portability
Author: Brian Keith Seal
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Pages : 272
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Evaluation Roots
Author: Marvin C. Alkin
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761928944
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Initially, evaluation was derived from social science research methodology and accountability concerns. This book examines evaluation theories and traces their evolution with the point of view that theories build upon theories and, therefore, evaluation theories are related to each other.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761928944
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Initially, evaluation was derived from social science research methodology and accountability concerns. This book examines evaluation theories and traces their evolution with the point of view that theories build upon theories and, therefore, evaluation theories are related to each other.