Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Evaluations, like case studies, systematically scrutinize programs, products, personnel, materials, or policies, with the additional intention to determine their value, merit, or worth.
• Evaluators select the appropriate approach for specific evaluations from a multitude of methodological options, based on the underlying perspectives, assumptions, and needs of a program's stakeholders and audience.
• An extensive set of professional performance standards and principles guides the planning, implementation, and reporting of evaluation findings.
• Evaluators use a program description or a logic model to determine the possible criteria on which to focus an evaluation.
• Often in collaboration with program stakeholders, evaluators select standards ...