Linking Auditing and Meta-Evaluation: Enhancing Quality in Applied Research (Applied Social Research Methods Series) - Softcover

Schwandt, Thomas A.; Halpern, Edward S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803929684 ISBN 13: 9780803929685

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1988

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The emergence of new evaluation paradigms raises serious questions about how merit can be established and judged. Linking Auditing and Metaevaluation addresses this concern, introducing a strategy by which the quality of inquiry procedures and products can be assured and retrospectively assessed. Based upon the model of fiscal auditing, the technique is applicable to a variety of social scientific investigations and specifically includes non - conventional paradigms such as naturalistic evaluation. Effective regardless of the nature of the inquiry, auditing is also an excellent means of organizing data, thus promoting theorizing and identification of relationships in that data. Each section includes exercises designed both to encoura

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Thomas A. Schwandt is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds appointments in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research. Previously, he was a faculty member at Indiana University (IU) and a fellow of the IU Poynter Center for Ethics and American Institutions, a member of the faculty in medical evaluation at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was employed as an evaluator and organizational consultant in the private sector. He has lectured on interpretive methodologies and theory of evaluation in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and held visiting appointments at both research institutions and universities in those countries. His papers on qualitative methodology, issues in the philosophy of social science, and evaluation have appeared in a variety of books and journals. His latest book is Evaluation Practice Reconsidered, which is scheduled for publication in 2002.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803929684
• ISBN 13: 9780803929685
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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