Batch Year 2008-09

Name of Student Dr. Abrar Ashraf Ali

First draft or Final Draft First Draft
or Redo
Assignment No. with its Assignment No 1
Title
Module no 6 Program Evaluation
Date of submission 20-11-2009
Task(s) given for the
assignment
Output Requirement
 Alternative Evaluation Approaches: Similarities and differences

No Objectives- Management-oriented Consumer- Expertise-oriented Participant

. oriented oriented oriented
1. Some Tyler Stufflebeam, Alkin Scriven Eisner Stake
propo Metfessel Provus, Wholy Kirk Patrick
nents
2. Purpos Determining Providing useful information Providing Providing professional Understanding and
e of the extent to to aid in making decisions information about judgements of quality portraying the
evalua which products to aid complexities of
tion objectives decisions about programmatic
are achieved purchases or activity, responding
adoptions to an audience’s
requirements for
information
3. Distin Specifying Serving rational decision Using criterion Basing judgments on Reflecting multiple
guishi measurable making; evaluating at all checklists to analyze individual knowledge and realities; use of
ng objectives; stages of program products; product experience; use of inductive reasoning
charac using development testing; informing consensus standards, and discovery;
teristic objective consumers team/site visitations firsthand experience
s instruments on site; involvement
to gather of intended users;
data; looking training intended
for users.
discrepancies
between
objectives
and
performance
4. Past Programme Program development; Consumer reports; Self-study; blue-ribbon Examination of
uses development; institutional management product panels; accreditation, innovations or
monitoring systems; program planning development; examination by change about which
participant accountability selection of products committee, criticism little is known;
outcomes; for dissemination ethnographies of
needs operating programs
assessment
5. Contri Pre-post Identify and evaluate needs Lists of criteria for Legitimation of subjective Emergent evaluation
bution measurement and objectives; consider evaluating criticism; self-study with designs; use of
 s to of alternative program designs educational products outside verification; inductive reasoning;
the performance; and evaluate them; watch and activities; standards recognition of
conce clarification the implementations of a archival references multiple realities;
ptualiz of goals; use program; look for bugs and for completed importance of
ation of objective explain outcomes; see if reviews; formative- studying context;
of an measurement needs have been reduced summative roles of criteria for judging
evalua s that are or eliminated; met evaluation; bias the rigor of
tion technically evaluation; guidelines for control naturalistic inquiry
sound institutionalizing evaluation
6. Criteri Measurability Utility, feasibility, propriety; Freedom from bias; Use of recognized Credibility; fit;
a for of objectives; technical soundness technical soundness; standards; qualifications autitability;
judgin measurement defensible criteria of experts confirmability
g reliability used to draw
evalua validity conclusions and
tions make
recommendations
7. Benefi Ease of use; Comprehensive; sensitivity Emphasis on Broad coverage; Focus on description
ts simplicity; to information needs of consumer efficiency (ease of and judgement;
focus on those in a leadership information needs; implementation, timing); concern with
outcomes; position; systematic influence on product capitalizes on human context; openness to
high approach to evaluation; use developers; concern judgement evolve evaluation
acceptability; of evaluation throughout with cost- plan; pluralistic; use
forces the process of program effectiveness and o inductive
objectives to development; well utility; reasoning; use of a
be set operationalized with wide variety of
detailed guidelines for information;
implementation; use of a emphasis on
wide variety of information understanding
8. Limita Over Emphasis on organizational Cost and lack of Replicability; vulnerability Nondirective;
tions implication of efficiency and production sponsorship; may to personal bias; scarcity tendency to be
evaluation model; assumption of supports creativity of supporting attracted by the
and problems order, lines and or innovation; not documentation to support bizarre or atypical;
outcomes predictability in decision open to debate or conclusions; open to potentially high
only making can be expensive to cross-examination conflict of interest; labour-intensity and
orientations; administer and maintain; superficial look at cost; hypothesis
overemphasis narrow focus on the context; overuse of generating; potential
on outcomes concerns of leader. intuitions; reliance on for failure to reach
qualifications of experts closure.