Julnes Promoting Value in the Public Interest

Informing Policies for Judging Value in Evaluation: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 133
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-31047-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 133, 128 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation

Do you make evidence-based decisions when designing and conducting evaluations, and use methods validated by experience? Because of the growing importance of evidence-based decision-making for improving programs and policies, this issue examines methods selection:
* Which is better?
* How can one be improved?
* Are the results of the project worth the resources expended?
and how that leads to confidence in value-based conclusions. It presents a constructive dialogue on valuing in evaluation, with the goal of developing a pragmatic approach for guiding method choice and for promoting methodology policies that support multiple approaches to valuation being employed in context-appropriate ways so as to serve the public interest.
This is the 133rd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Julnes, George

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EDITOR'S NOTES 1
George Julnes
1. Managing Valuation 3
George Julnes
This chapter introduces challenges in valuing, identifiesvariations in current practice, and lays the groundwork formanaging the use of context-appropriate valuing methodologies.
2. The Logic of Valuing 17
Michael Scriven
The author distinguishes between the logic of valuing and thelogic of evaluation, and explicates the details of the logic ofvaluing.
3. The Evaluator's Role in Valuing: Who and With Whom29
Marvin C. Alkin, Anne T. Vo, Christina A. Christie
The authors consider the multiple theoretic perspectives thatgovern an evaluator's behavior and present a typology of evaluatorvaluing roles.
4. Step Arounds for Common Pitfalls When Valuing ResourcesUsed Versus Resources Produced 43
Brian T. Yates
This chapter describes how the value of a program can beunderstood not only as outcomes, but also how those outcomescompare to the types and amounts of resources expended to producethe outcomes.
5. The Role of Context in Valuing Federal Programs53
Stephanie Shipman
The author draws upon her experience at the U.S. GovernmentAccountability Office (GAO), and provides insight into issuesinvolved in deciding how to evaluate a federal program orpolicy.
6. When One Must Go: The Canadian Experience With StrategicReview and Judging Program Value 65
François Dumaine
This chapter reviews the Canadian experiment with assessing theworth of public programs and policies and using the resulting valuejudgments to drive funding decisions.
7. Valuing, Evaluation Methods, and the Politicization of theEvaluation Process 77
Eleanor Chelimsky
The author develops the idea that what we are talking aboutwhen we talk about valuing is methodology.
8. Valuation and the American Evaluation Association: Helping100 Flowers Bloom, or at Least Be Understood? 85
Michael Morris
This chapter uses the American Evaluation Association as anexample, explores challenges encountered when organizations tacklepublicsector valuation, and offers tentative recommendations foraddressing those challenges.
9. Evaluators in a World of Valuators 91
George F. Grob
The author describes the work of evaluators in policy andprogram contexts in which everyone must make value judgments.
10. Contextual Pragmatics of Valuing 97
Michael Quinn Patton
This chapter highlights how the issue authors emphasizecontextual sensitivity and adaptability in the valuing process.
11. Developing Policies to Support Valuing in the PublicInterest 109
George Julnes
This chapter develops a pragmatic framework that organizesmultiple paradigms of valuing with implications for policies forguiding contextappropriate method choice for valuing in the publicinterest.
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