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Completing Your Evaluation Dissertation, Thesis, or Culminating Project

Michael S Trevisan author Tamara M Walser author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:25th Nov '20

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This practical, user-friendly resource helps students successfully complete an evaluation capstone: a dissertation, thesis, or culminating project where a student conducts an evaluation as their capstone experience. Authors Tamara M. Walser and Michael S. Trevisan present a framework to support students and faculty in maximizing student development of evaluator competencies, addressing standards of the evaluation profession, and contributing to programs and disciplinary knowledge. Their framework, and this book, is organized by six fundamentals of evaluation practice: quality; stakeholders; understanding the program; values; approaches; and maximizing evaluation use. Throughout the book they use the metaphor of the journey to depict the processes and activities a student will experience as they navigate an evaluation capstone and the six fundamentals of evaluation practice. In pursuit of a completed capstone, students grow professionally and personally, and will be in a different place when they reach the destination and the capstone journey is complete.

"The book provides a more practical approach/guide for conducting program evaluation."
-- Augustine Hammond
"A superbly written and important treatise that fills a wide gap."
-- Katrin Anacker
"This is an excellent guide for students undertaking an evaluation capstone project."
-- Amy Donley
I feel like I have co-teaching partners in the classroom using this text. This is a diverse resource to be used in a classroom setting or for individualized academic research advising for culminating projects."
-- Frances Kayona
"This text is a ‘must-have’ for the student who is conducting an evaluation dissertation study. It contains the essentials for developing a research rationale using the Program Evaluation Standards. It also combines the practical points of conducting a study with the academic requirements of completing a dissertation."
-- John D. Tiller

ISBN: 9781544300009

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

232 pages