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Fourth Generation Evaluation

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Informationen zum Autor (Retired)  Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry , coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research , and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.  Klappentext Fourth generation evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. The authors highlight the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators - politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions - and blame reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm for failure. They show how fourth generation evaluation solves persistent problems in programme evaluation, comprehensively describe the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research, and provide a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation. Zusammenfassung Represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. This title shows how fourth generation evaluation solves persistent problems in programme evaluation! describes the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research! and provides a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Coming of Age of Evaluation What Is Fourth Generation Evaluation? Why Should We Choose to Practice It? What Is this Constructivist Paradigm Anyway? Ethics and Politics The Twin Failures of Positivist Science Constructions and Reconstructions of Realities Paradigms and Methodologies The Methodology of Fourth Generation Evaluations Judging the Quality of Fourth Generation Evaluation Putting It All Together so that It Spells E-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-O-N ...

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Authors Econ G. Guba, Egon Guba, Egon G. Guba, Dr. Yvonna S. Lincoln, Yvonna Lincoln, Yvonna S. Lincoln
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.11.1989
 
EAN 9780803932357
ISBN 978-0-8039-3235-7
No. of pages 296
Dimensions 148 mm x 225 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Miscellaneous

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