How to Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation, Band 4SAGE, 1987 - 176 Seiten The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the fourth in the kit, explains the basic assumptions underlying qualitative procedures, suggests evaluation situations where qualitative designs are useful, and provides guidelines for designing qualitative evaluations, including how to use observational methods, how to conduct in-depth, open-ended interviews, and how to analyze qualitative data. The following chapters are included: (1) "An Introduction to Qualitative Methods"; (2) "When To Use Qualitative Methods"; (3) "Designing Qualitative Evaluations"; (4) "Fieldwork and Observation"; (5) "Depth Interviewing"; (6) "Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data"; and (7) "Making Methods Decisions; Controversy and Philosophy." (Contains 3 figures, 3 tables, and 68 references.) (SLD) |
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Acknowledgments | 5 |
When to Use Qualitative Methods | 23 |
Designing Qualitative Evaluations | 44 |
Fieldwork and Observation | 70 |
Depth Interviewing | 108 |
Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data | 144 |
Controversy | 165 |
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approach appropriate basic behaviors chapter clients conceptual content analysis context data collection decision makers depth and detail describe dimensions educational evaluation effects emerge evaluation observer evaluation questions evaluation strategy evaluator's example experience extent feedback field notes fieldwork findings Focus group interviews focused Formative evaluations goal-free evaluation grounded theory Guba happening holistic implementation important in-depth inductive insights interactions interpretations interview guide involves issues key informants kinds looking means measures methodological Michael Scriven naturalistic inquiry nature Newbury Park outcomes participant observation patterns Patton person being interviewed perspective possible predetermined probes problem Process evaluations program activities program evaluation program participants program processes program staff purpose qualitative analysis qualitative data qualitative evaluation qualitative methods qualitative research quantitative questionnaire quotations responses sensitive setting situation skills social stakeholders standardized open-ended interview tape recorder things tion triangulation typically understand unit of analysis variations