Responsive Evaluation New Directions for Evaluation, Number 92

by Greene, Jennifer C.; Abma, Tineke A.

• ISBN13: 9780787957940
• ISBN10: 0787957941
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

With his 1973 address titled "Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation," Robert Stake offered a new vision and rationale for educational and social program evaluation. In this vision, evaluation was reframed--from the application of sophisticated analytic techniques that address distant policymakers' questions of program benefits and effectiveness "on the average" to an engagement with on-site practitioners about the quality and meaning of their practice. These innovative ideas helped accelerate a transformation of the evaluation enterprise into its current pluralistic character, within which remain multiple and varied legacies of key responsive evaluation principles. This volume offers some of those legacies, representing central epistemological, artistic, and political dimensions of Stake's original commitment to responsiveness. This is the 92nd issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Evaluation.

Author Biography

JENNIFER C. GREENE is professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work concentrates on qualitative, participatory, and mixed-method approaches to evaluation.

TINEKE A. ABMA is working at the Department of Health Care Policy and Management of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Editors' Notes	p. 1
Stake's Responsive Evaluation: Core Ideas and Evolution	p. 7
Responsive Evaluation (and Its Influence on Deliberative Democratic Evaluation)	p. 23
Nobody Knows My Name: In Praise of African American Evaluators Who Were Responsive	p. 31
Becoming Responsive - and Some Consequences for Evaluation as Dialogue Across Distance	p. 45
The Changing Face of Responsive Evaluation: A Postmodern Rejoinder	p. 59
Responsiveness and Everyday Life	p. 73
Responsive Evaluation Is to Personalized Assessment . . .	p. 89
Index	p. 103
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