Enduring Issues in Evaluation: The 20th Anniversary of the Collaboration between NDE and AEA New Directions for Evaluation, Number 114

by Mathison, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780470179000
• ISBN10: 0470179007
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-29
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This issue of New Directions for Evaluation looks back at the past twenty years of the American Evaluation Association, from its inception to current research, highlighting important moments and enduring issues in the discipline and profession of evaluation. The issue includes a very brief history of NDE--including the journal's purpose, the various foci, how the journal has operated, and such events as the change in the journal's name. The issue also looks at the substance of NDE over the past twenty years, including an analysis of the coverage of cultural diversity issues. But much of the issue is devoted to "greatest hits" chapters that have appeared in prior NDE issues, each of which is introduced by an analysis of what makes it a significant contribution to the evaluation literature.The American Evaluation Association (AEA) celebrated its twentieth birthday in 2006. The partnership between AEA and New Directions for Evaluation has spanned this time and indeed stretches back further to AEA's precursor associations, the Evaluation Research Society and ENet.This is the 114th volume of the quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, a publication of Jossey-Bass and the American Evaluation Association.

Table of Contents

The partnership of New directions for evaluation and the American Evaluation Association	p. 3
A short history of New directions for evaluation	p. 9
Judging interpretations	p. 11
A big chapter about small theories	p. 27
Theory-based evaluation : reflections ten years on	p. 63
Making sense of participatory evaluation	p. 83
New directions for evaluation coverage of cultural issues and issues of significance to underrepresented groups	p. 107
AEA and evaluation : 2006 (and beyond)	p. 115
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