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- catalog abstract "Why do we have evaluation? Is evaluation a discipline? How much impact does evaluation have on government, education, or politics? Can social problems, such as poverty, be solved like engineering problems by the application of resources and intelligence? By exploring how evaluation has evolved as a discipline, science, and profession, House examines how evaluation impacts modern societies and the issues that this impact (social force) raises for evaluators. Addressing such issues as pluralism versus managerialism, quantitative versus qualitative methodologies, the purpose of higher education for knowledge production versus educating people for professions, clientism, and multicultural concerns, House traces how evaluation has evolved as a basis for determining where the field should go - and, how.".
- catalog contributor b4251618.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Evaluation in Advanced Capitalist Society -- Trends -- Structural Changes -- Conceptual Changes -- Mixed Methods and the Unraveling of Consensus -- Utilization, Values, and Politics -- Evaluation as an Institution and Profession -- Emergence of Evaluation as an Institution -- Evaluation as a Profession -- Among Other Professions -- Evaluation's Future -- Government and Evaluation -- Accountability and Evaluation -- Government Evaluation in the United States -- Government Evaluation in Britain -- Government Evaluation in Canada -- Government Evaluation in Europe -- Higher Education: An Example -- Higher Education Accountability -- Evaluating Programs -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Program Reviews -- Public Accountability -- Evaluation as a Discipline -- Is Evaluation a Discipline? -- The Authority Structure of Disciplines -- Disciplinary Change -- The Future--A Transdiscipline? -- The Legacy of U.S. Social Science -- U.S. Social Science, 1865-1896 -- Progressivism, 1896-1914 -- World War I Until 1929 -- Social Justice -- Stakeholders and the Fractured Consensus -- Attempts at Further Reform -- Social Class -- Social Justice and Evaluation -- Methodology and Justice -- Craniometry -- Two Evaluation Examples -- Causation and Methods -- Program Definition -- Injustice and Method -- Evaluation in Multicultural Societies -- Nationalism and Ethnicity -- Canada and the United States as Multicultural Societies -- Minority Rights -- Stakeholder Evaluation -- Professional Ethics -- Codes of Conduct -- Principles.".
- catalog description "Why do we have evaluation? Is evaluation a discipline? How much impact does evaluation have on government, education, or politics? Can social problems, such as poverty, be solved like engineering problems by the application of resources and intelligence? By exploring how evaluation has evolved as a discipline, science, and profession, House examines how evaluation impacts modern societies and the issues that this impact (social force) raises for evaluators. Addressing such issues as pluralism versus managerialism, quantitative versus qualitative methodologies, the purpose of higher education for knowledge production versus educating people for professions, clientism, and multicultural concerns, House traces how evaluation has evolved as a basis for determining where the field should go - and, how.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 199 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Professional evaluation.".
- catalog identifier "0803949952 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0803949960 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Professional evaluation.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newbury Park : Sage,".
- catalog relation "Professional evaluation.".
- catalog subject "361.6/1/068 20".
- catalog subject "Evaluation Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Evaluation research (Social action programs)".
- catalog subject "H62 .H643 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Evaluation in Advanced Capitalist Society -- Trends -- Structural Changes -- Conceptual Changes -- Mixed Methods and the Unraveling of Consensus -- Utilization, Values, and Politics -- Evaluation as an Institution and Profession -- Emergence of Evaluation as an Institution -- Evaluation as a Profession -- Among Other Professions -- Evaluation's Future -- Government and Evaluation -- Accountability and Evaluation -- Government Evaluation in the United States -- Government Evaluation in Britain -- Government Evaluation in Canada -- Government Evaluation in Europe -- Higher Education: An Example -- Higher Education Accountability -- Evaluating Programs -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Program Reviews -- Public Accountability -- Evaluation as a Discipline -- Is Evaluation a Discipline? -- The Authority Structure of Disciplines -- Disciplinary Change -- The Future--A Transdiscipline? -- The Legacy of U.S. Social Science -- U.S. Social Science, 1865-1896 -- Progressivism, 1896-1914 -- World War I Until 1929 -- Social Justice -- Stakeholders and the Fractured Consensus -- Attempts at Further Reform -- Social Class -- Social Justice and Evaluation -- Methodology and Justice -- Craniometry -- Two Evaluation Examples -- Causation and Methods -- Program Definition -- Injustice and Method -- Evaluation in Multicultural Societies -- Nationalism and Ethnicity -- Canada and the United States as Multicultural Societies -- Minority Rights -- Stakeholder Evaluation -- Professional Ethics -- Codes of Conduct -- Principles.".
- catalog title "Professional evaluation : social impact and political consequences / Ernest R. House.".
- catalog type "text".