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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"evaluation use"”.
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Non-formal Educator Use of Evaluation Findings: Factors of Influence
… have resulted in more frequent calls for program evaluation activity in educational organizations. Many organizations include conducting program evaluations as part of the job responsibilities of program staff. Cooperative Extension is a national system offering non-formal educational programs …
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Conceptualizations of Data Visualization Use Beyond Efficiency in Evaluation
… (data viz) is a valuable tool within evaluation for its ability to aid cognitive efficiency over text-based presentation of data (Card et. al., 1999; Evergreen, 2017, 2018; Few, 2012; Nussbaumer Knaflic, 2015; Tufte 2001). This exploratory multi-phase mixed methods research study …
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The role of context in the practice and use of internal evaluation activities: A case study from business and industry
… analyses and subsequent prescriptions about evaluation use either address-only-one-perspective or segregate--and-categorize several, in practice, facilitating use involves consideration of several perspectives simultaneously. This research provided a comprehensive understanding of the …
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In Black and White: The American Media’s Construction of Police Killings
… of race-related modifiers, passivization, and evaluation. Use of these linguistic features can influence public perception of the role of race, police accountability, and societal expectations. Considering the findings, I advocate for media literacy education as professional development for …
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Peacebuilding Evaluations within International Organisations. Investigation of their relevance, roles and effects
… the past. In the debates on aid effectiveness, evaluations have been advocated as being an effective instrument to better understand the results of development and peacebuilding projects and thereby ultimately to improve the practice. However, despite a long tradition of evaluation utilisation …
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Let’s Get Strategic: An Exploration of the How-To’s, What-Not-to-Do’s, and Promising Upshots of Strategic Evaluation Initiatives
… a mechanism to improve the practice of program evaluation (Preskill & Mack, 2013). While there are a few guiding frameworks for strategic evaluation planning initiatives, these frameworks have not been systematically documented or explored. As such, there is limited understanding of the current …
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Achieving Evaluation Influence Through Elaboration Likelihood Model-informed Evaluation Product Designs
<p>The ultimate purpose of evaluation is social betterment, which is achieved through evaluation influence. Progress has been made in defining the mechanisms of evaluation influence (Mark & Henry, 2004); however, little research has explored how the design of evaluation products trigger these …
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Use of Phillips's Five Level Training Evaluation and ROI Framework in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector
This study examined training evaluation practices in U.S. nonprofit sector organizations. It offered a framework for evaluating employee training in the nonprofit sector and suggested solutions to overcome the barriers to evaluation. A mail survey was sent to 879 individuals who were members of, or …
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Consumer Acceptance of Beer: An Automated Sentiment Analysis Approach
… to add to the library of data analysis tools used to understand FC data and consumer acceptance studies. Sentiment analysis is an opinion mining tool commonly used in marketing and computer science that extracts the emotional valence of the author from an unstructured text in the form of a …
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Politikgestaltung durch institutionalisierte Evaluationsverfahren? : Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Forschungspolitik der Europäischen Union
… noch immer zentralen und aktuellen Frage der Evaluationsforschung, der Hinterfragung der Verwendung bzw. Wirksamkeit von Evaluationsverfahren. Vor dem Hintergrund der seit Ende der 1990er Jahre vor allem in Europa starken Zunahme von institutionalisierten Politik-Evaluationsverfahren sowie der …
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The Power to Commission: Exploring the Evaluation Capacity and the Transformative Role of Evaluation Commissioners in the International Development Sector
<p>Evaluation commissioners play a central role in evaluation practice by generating demand for evaluation through issuing calls for evaluation services and managing evaluation contracts (Lemire, Nielsen et al., 2018; Nielsen et al., 2018b), particularly in the international development sector. Yet …
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How evaluation practice, knowledge construction, value, and social programming predict utilization of program review recommendations by community college department chairs
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Determining Standards for Sources of Free Information on the Internet for Inclusion in Academic Library Holdings by 2010.
… subparts.</p><p>The results of this study may be used to project the information needs of students as well as suggest strategies for publishers on the basis of the data collected in this study. A major finding of the study was the need for reliable information in documents on the Internet. The …