Exploring evaluator role and identity / edited by Katherine E. Ryan, Thomas A. Schwandt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryan, Katherine E., editor.

Schwandt, Thomas A., editor.

Series:

Evaluation and society.

Evaluation and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evaluation--Study and teaching.

Evaluation.

Evaluation research (Social action programs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An exploration of evaluator role and identity. The areas addressed include: evaluation in an organizational world; evaluation as responsibility, conscience and conviction; the evaluator's role in the transformative context; hidden images of self; and evaluation in dystopian times.

Contents:

Three frameworks for considering evaluator role / Jean A. King and Laurie Stevahn

Toward better understanding of alternative evaluator roles / Melvin M. Mark

Making (more) room at the evaluation table for ethnography : contributions to the responsive constructivist generation / Rodney K. Hopson

Evaluation in an organizational world / Peter Dahler-Larsen

Evaluation as responsibility, conscience, and conviction / Christina Segerholm

The evaluator's role in the transformative context / Donna M. Mertens

Hidden images of self / Tineke A. Abma

Performing evaluation / Norman K. Denzin

Future imperfect : evaluation in dystopian times / Ian Stronach, Rob Halsall, and Dave Hustler

Traversing the terrain of role, identity, and self / Thomas A. Schwandt.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786611378707

9781281378705

1281378704

9781607525066

1607525062

OCLC:

923175704