Evaluation as a democratic process : promoting inclusion, dialogue, and deliberation
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Evaluation as a democratic process : promoting inclusion, dialogue, and deliberation
（New directions for program evaluation, No. 85）
Jossey-Bass, c2000
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Evaluation as a democratic process
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This book presents inclusive approaches to evaluation emphasizing participation and collaboration that can enhance the efficiency of data collection, improve learning, and strengthen commitment to act on results and also reflect the highest aspirations and ideals of a democratic society. The contributors to this volume use case studies to discover the lessons learned so far from successful and unsuccessful attempts to democratize evaluation.They offer ten questions to guide evaluation planning from a deliberative, democratic viewpoint, and look at a failed attempt at inclusive evaluation to analyze how deliberative intentions can be distorted. Focusing on participation, they discuss how best to use different types of dialog to make evaluation more participatory, examine an evaluation program in a psychiatric institution to explore the challenge of employing participatory, democratic approaches in an anti-democratic environment, and more. This is the 85th issue of the quarterly journal "New Directions for Evaluation".
Table of Contents
Deliberative Democratic Evaluation (E. House & K. Howe). Challenges in Practicing Deliberative Democratic Evaluation (J. Greene). Dialogue and Reflection in a Collaborative Evaluation: Stakeholder and Evaluator Voices (R. Torres, et al.). Democratizing Evaluation: Meanings and Methods from Practice (K. Ryan & T. Johnson). Surfacing the Realpolitik: Democratic Evaluation in an Antidemocratic Climate (C. MacNeil). Distangling Dialogue: Issues from Practices (K. Ryan & L. DeStefano). Commentary on Deliberative Democratic Evaluation (S. Hood). Deliberation, Evaluation, and Democracy (S. Mathison). Benefits and Limitations of Deliberation (G. Henry). A Modest Commitment to the Promotion of Democracy (R. Stake).
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