Fostering utilization through multiple data gathering methods

Turner, Susan Douglas; Hartman, Jayne; Nielsen, Lore A.; Lombana, Judith

doi:10.1016/0191-491x(88)90023-5

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“…Turner, Hartman, Nielsen, and Lombana (1988) studied evaluation utilization following a three-year evaluation process in a program for academically gifted learners. Of 32 recommendations made in the evaluation report, 23 (72%) were acted upon.…”

Section: Applied Evaluation In Programs For the Giftedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gold's "stakeholder" approach encourages evaluators to adhere to user preferences for both types of information desired and forms in which they wish to receive the information. Turner, Hartman, Nielsen, and Lombana (1988) surveyed decision makers in four evaluation studies which they had conducted and in which they had used a multiplicity of data gathering methods to determine (1) the degree of use of recommendations and (2) factors affecting the use of recommendations. The researchers found that the two chief categories impacting evaluation utilization were timeliness of reporting and substance of the report.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluation Utilization: A Review of the Literature with Implications for Gifted Education

Tomlinson¹,

Bland²,

Moon³

1993

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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Although evaluations of education programs are conducted for a variety of reasons, there is always the expectation that findings will be used in some way. However, the utility of evaluation findings may be affected by factors related to evaluation context which are out of the evaluator's control (such as economic and political concerns), and by factors which may be at least to some degree within the control of the evaluator (such as evaluator competence, evaluation design, identification of and communication with audiences, and clarity and quality of the evaluation report). Unique goals of programs for gifted learners provide special challenges to evaluators. Findings from the general literature of evaluation utilization offer guidance to evaluators of gifted programs regarding factors which may increase the likelihood that evaluation findings will be used to produce program change, but there is a clear need for research delineating specific factors which may facilitate or impede utilization of findings from evaluations of programs for the gifted.

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Section: Applied Evaluation In Programs For the Giftedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ill"mentioning

confidence: 99%