Evaluative Research in Recreation, Park, and Sport Settings

by Riddick, Carol Cutler; Russell, Ruth V.

• ISBN13: 9781571672452
• ISBN10: 1571672451
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Sagamore Pub Llc

Summary

This is a comprehensive introduction to conducting and using evaluation research. It serves leisure studies students and recreation agency managers by advancing a framework for evaluation and discussing specific tactics for planning, executing, and reporting. Ideas for how to evaluate programs, participant needs, personnel, physical plant, and marketing are featured. The book is pragmatic in writing style and content, building not only an ethic or evaluation-based accountability of leisure services, but also a 'can-do' readiness for actually conducting an evaluation project.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
Introduction and Underpinnings	1	(16)
Developing an Organization Evaluation System	17	(26)
Ethics of Evaluation	43	(20)
PART II: EVALUATION PLANNING MODEL
Literature Review	63	(22)
Quantitative and Qualitative Frameworks	85	(12)
Defining the Scope of Evaluative Research	97	(22)
Designs Used in Evaluative Research	119	(30)
Sampling and Sample Size	149	(18)
Procedures	167	(18)
Data Collection	185	(22)
Making Sense of Quantitative Information	207	(24)
Making Sense of Qualitative Information	231	(18)
Writing and Presenting Reports	249	(22)
From Results to Policy and Practice	271	(15)
PART III: EVALUATIVE RESEARCH IN ACTION
Program Evaluation	286	(19)
Assessment	305	(14)
Personnel Performance Appraisal	319	(26)
Evaluation of the Physical Plant	345	(22)
Evaluation of Marketing	367	(1)
PART IV: The MISE-EN-SCENE