TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation capacity building in the schools
T2 - Administrator-led and teacher-led perspectives
AU - Lawrenz, Frances
AU - Thomas, Kelli
AU - Huffman, Douglas
AU - Clarkson, Lesa Covington
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The purpose of this article is to describe evaluation capacity building using an immersion approach in two schools: one with an administrator-led process and one with a teacher-led process. The descriptions delineate conceptual, developmental, and sustainability aspects of capacity building through the perspectives of the teachers, principals, and evaluation specialists. The immersion approach to evaluation capacity building highlights the distinctions between developing capacity for using evaluation information and the capacity to conduct evaluations, and provides insight into the use of direct and indirect approaches to building capacity. The two cases also showcase the roles played by ownership in developing evaluation capacity, especially sustainability.
AB - The purpose of this article is to describe evaluation capacity building using an immersion approach in two schools: one with an administrator-led process and one with a teacher-led process. The descriptions delineate conceptual, developmental, and sustainability aspects of capacity building through the perspectives of the teachers, principals, and evaluation specialists. The immersion approach to evaluation capacity building highlights the distinctions between developing capacity for using evaluation information and the capacity to conduct evaluations, and provides insight into the use of direct and indirect approaches to building capacity. The two cases also showcase the roles played by ownership in developing evaluation capacity, especially sustainability.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054690868
SN - 0834-1516
VL - 23
SP - 61
EP - 82
JO - Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
JF - Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
IS - 3 SPEC. ISSUE
ER -