00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685675941131449927 Buklod 20231113141747.0 m |o d | ta 231011s2021 cau b 000 0 eng 781544300009 (paperback) 21552044 DAIT rda DLC eng LB 2369 W35 2021 Walser, Tamara M. author. Completing your evaluation dissertation, thesis, or culminating project Tamara M. Walser, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University. First edition. Los Angeles SAGE Publications, Inc 2021 xiii, 205 pages 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Part 1: Essentials for your journey -- The evaluation capstone -- Working productively with your committee -- Part 2: Navigating the six fundamentals of evaluation practice -- Quality: Addressing professional evaluation standards and guidelines -- Stakeholders: Working with an evaluation client and other program stakeholders -- Understanding: Developing understanding of a program -- Values: Engaging values through evaluation purpose, questions, and criteria -- Approaches: Applying evaluation approaches -- Use: Maximizing evaluation use. 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; valuing; approaches; and maximizing evaluation use"-- Provided by publisher. Dissertations, Academic. Educational evaluation. Report writing. Trevisan, Michael S. author. FO UPD DAIT LB 2369 W35 2021 Book