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	Evaluand -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an (An appraisal of the value of something) evaluation, the thing being evaluated is called an evaluand.
		Basically, anything can be an evaluand depending on the purpose of the evaluation.
		Determining the evaluand is one of the first steps for conducting an evaluation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ev/Evaluand.htm (55 words)

	Evaluation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evaluation is determining describes the process of examining information about an evaluand.
		However, evaluation is broader than assessment and involves making judgments about the merit or worth of an evaluand.
		For example, a history and a mathematics teacher may have equal merit in terms of mastery of their respective disciplines, but the math teacher may have greater worth because of the higher demand and lower supply of qualified mathematics teachers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evaluation (525 words)

	Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog
		I view the authenticity criteria as essential to the evaluand's self-diagnosis and repair - given the assumption that a major portion of the attributes of organizational health are present and that the evaluation process is a temporary special measure, an insight enhancement and energizing device, to enable its restoration of health.
		We have taken the position that the evaluand is under -performing and perceives itself to be needy.
		The pay off for the evaluand as an organization is the set of more effective environmental (internal and external) behaviors, the expectation being that such success is more likely given a set of consensual constructions which in turn allow the organization to act as a single entity rather than an awkward collection of fragments.
	radio.weblogs.com /0106698/categories/philosophy/2003/week37.html (3346 words)

	Proposals 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I'm still working on figuring out what the evaluands necessary to evaluate the theory are, but I believe there are some criteria I can use to test parts of the experiment.
		The evaluand is the English teacher education course using the textbook in an English Teacher Education division in an English Department at a Japanese University.
		In order to understand what the evaluand is, we need to break the concept down to the constructs that are going to be evaluated in evaluating the evaluand, and its components.
	mse.byu.edu /ipt/williams/661fall99/Proposals5.htm (3966 words)

	IP&T 661 Course Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To "evaluate" is to judge or appraise the worth of an entity (evaluand) in terms of some set of criteria.
		Disciplined evaluation is an inquiry process in which some evaluand (e.g., program, policy, instructional product, employee, course, curriculum, school, etc.) is subjected to careful scrutiny in order to arrive at defensible conclusions about its worth, merit, or utility.
		The results of this investigative process are reasoned judgments (claims about the evaluand's value or lack of value accompanied by supporting reasons) presented for the consideration of others (e.g., the staff, sponsor, public, some decision making group, etc.).
	www.byu.edu /ipt/courses/661Sylf2001.htm (2583 words)

	Explanation 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The evaluator has the task of exploring the users values through all or any of these avenues until the users are able to clarify what they hope the evaluand will do.
		Then those criteria may be used to ascertain the quality of the evaluand.
		For example, in the CID evaluation, Scott Howell has told the evaluation team that he wants to know if students are learning, if students are completing the course or dropping out, if the students and faculty are getting good technical support, and so on.
	mse.byu.edu /ipt/williams/661fall99/explanation5.htm (325 words)

	Some evaluation questions. Shadish, William
		Scriven (1969, 1989) published a variety of writings on the topic of the logical sequence of concepts that defines how people try to connect data to value judgments that the evaluand is good or bad, better or worse, passing or failing, or the like.
		Referring back to the answer to the first question about the logic of evaluation, implicit in it in most applications is that the thing being evaluated caused the observed performance on the criteria of merit (e.g., that the treatment met recipient needs).
		If that were not the case, it would be improper to attribute the merit or value to the evaluand; rather, it should be attributed to whatever else actually caused the improvement in the criteria of merit.
	pareonline.net /getvn.asp?v=6&n=3 (1612 words)

	Tall Pines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evaluand has some questions but expects that the guests will initiate a fair amount of the discussion.
		Evaluand usually saves some questions for the Saturday dinner.
		One of Jean's favourites is: "In your more reflective moments, what do you think you're accomplishing or contributing as an evaluator?" By this point most guests feel comfortable and ask most of the questions or engage in spirited and meaningful conversations with their colleagues.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~ldavie/cookbook/pines.html (699 words)

	Evaluand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$175,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		In an evaluation, the thing being evaluated is called an evaluand.
		This page was last modified 18:23, 20 November 2004.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evaluand (95 words)

	Measurement - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It includes the process of collecting data which can be used to make claims about learning.
		Measurement is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of a program or product (known as an evaluand).
		In physics and engineering, measurement is the process of comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /measurement.htm (585 words)

	Ascertaining causality in theory-based evaluation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In other words, causality is not merely an issue of relevance to academics; it deeply affects the lives of many stakeholder groups, whether they realize it or not.
		When testing the causal mechanism, expected changes in the mediators and outcome variables, coupled with a good fit of the data to the hypothesized model, were considered to be strong evidence that the program was indeed causing the effects.
		Ideally, this should be carried out by someone thoroughly trained in the discipline of evaluation, but with minimal substantive knowledge of the particular type of evaluand, and no knowledge of the program’s specific goals.
	unix.cc.wmich.edu /~jdavidso/resmeth/papers/ndepaper.htm (3925 words)

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		It is that form of inquiry whose focus is some evaluand (program, process, organization, person, etc.) and which results in “merit” and/or “worth” constructions (judgments) about it.
		Merit constructions converge on the intrinsic quality of an evaluand, irrespective of the setting in which it may find applications.
		Evaluation of a proposed or developing evaluand is termed “formative,” while evaluation of some developed evaluand is termed “summative.” CONSTRUCTIVIST EVALUATION DEFINED Constructivist evaluation is that form of evaluation based on the propositions (basic assumptions) undergirding the constructivist paradigm.
	www.workplace-learning-partners.org /eval/handbook/training/evaluation-training-program/theories/resources/row-1/col-1/links_files/constructivist (468 words)

	Evaluand Definition / Evaluand Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, a history and a mathematics teacher may have equal merit in terms of mastery of their respective d...
		[click for more], the thing being evaluated is named an evaluand.
		evaluand is the English teacher education course using the textbook in an.
	www.elresearch.com /Evaluand (138 words)

	AECT 99 Paper
		An analysis of the source code of the individual Web pages in each of the evaluands was conducted using ãBobby,ä a Web-based analysis tool designed to help determine page features that may be inaccessible for person with disabilities.
		As previously mentioned, one of the features of computer-facilitated focus groups is that they allow the participant to directly point out various strengths and limitations of the evaluand to the evaluator, an advantage that often requires a greater amount of attention by the evaluator and fellow focus group members.
		There is a tendency for participants to move ahead of others when working with Web-based evaluands, especially when there is a participant that requires more time to navigate through the site than the others, creating a potential for chaos in a larger group.
	access.ed.uiuc.edu /AECT/Eval/aect_hinn.html (4914 words)

	Metaeval Form
		Check all that are clearly described within the evaluation for value judgment purposes.
		The evaluation report was disseminated to the intended users in a timely fashion.
		Are the likely influences on the evaluand indentified within the evaluation?
	students.ed.uiuc.edu /catey/metaevalform.html (342 words)

	Class Size Reduction: A Facilitator of Instructional Program Coherence
		The evaluand was an elementary school that implemented Wisconsin's fortified CSR program (class size reduction, education and human services, rigorous academic curriculum, & staff development and accountability) named SAGE.
		The evaluand is a south-central Wisconsin city school district with a resident population of approximately 35,000.
		This sampling technique was preferred to random sampling because it maximized the researcher's ability to identify emerging themes within the context of the evaluand (Erlandson, Harris, Skipper, & Allen, 1993).
	www.nova.edu /ssss/QR/QR7-4/kiger.html (13685 words)

	Key Evaluation Checklist
		MAIN NOTE A: Throughout this document, “evaluation”; is taken to mean the determination of merit, worth, or significance (abbreviated m/w/s) and “evaluand” means whatever is being evaluated.
		Program staff are also impactees, but we keep them separate (by calling them the midstream impactees) because the obligations to them are very different and much weaker in most kinds of program evaluation (their welfare is not the raison d’etre of the program).
		The stars are the weights, i.e., the relative or absolute importance of the dimensions of merit or other values that will be used to get from the facts about the evaluand, as you locate or determine them, to the evaluative conclusions.
	www.wmich.edu /evalctr/checklists/kec.htm (3101 words)

	Class Project - Tom Evans
		Corollary 1: Inquiries are influenced by inquirer values as expressed in the choice of a problem, evaluand, or policy option, and in the framing, bounding, and focusing of that problem, evaluand, or policy option.
		Corollary 2: Inquiry is influenced by the choice of the substantive theory utilized to guide the collection and analysis of data and in the interpretation of findings.
		Problem, evaluand, or policy option, paradigm, theory, and context must exhibit congruence (value resonance) if the inquiry is to produce meaningful results.
	www.edb.utexas.edu /faculty/scheurich/election2000/n5.htm (315 words)

	Evaluation Model Comparison
		No, generally leave those decisions to the evaluand.
		Prescriptive, evaluator determines what is important to the evaluand.
		No, evaluand’s make those decisions due to idiosyncratic nature of the evaluation.
	www.courses.dsu.edu /LT716/Resources/Evaluation%20Model%20Comparison.htm (83 words)

	IP&T 661 Course Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Understanding how to make evaluations disciplined and systematic rather than biased and haphazard is essential if evaluation is to improve the quality of the evaluands central to education.
		Each of these critiques should be 2-5 pages long and should summarize your judgment of the "evaluand" in terms of the thirty standards and your rationale for coming to that judgment.
		I propose that as a class, we use the previous activities to help us design an evaluation study together (probably an extension of one of the evaluations I'll be discussing with you in class).
	www.byu.edu /ipt/courses/661syl.html (1864 words)

	Improving use of learning technologies in higher education through participant oriented evaluations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Department chairs and service departments from across campus were important stakeholders who were not approached regarding their questions and issues due to the haste with which this evaluation was initiated.
		What criteria did the stakeholders have for judging the evaluand? Based on their questions and issues discussed earlier, the following criteria for success of the courses were derived and synthesized across all the stakeholders by the evaluation team through a serious of focus group discussions, observations, and personal interviews:
		Using the key evaluation elements discussed in this article (identifying and involving the participants in clarifying what to evaluate, what their values are relative to the evaluand, and in gathering and interpreting data) has been shown to enhance the participants’ use of the evaluation results and their interest in building evaluation into their ongoing system.
	ifets.ieee.org /periodical/vol_3_2002/williams.html (1925 words)

	Constructivist Evaluation Checklist
		Constructivist evaluation is a process for doing evaluation that meets two conditions: It is organized by the claims, concerns, and issues of stakeholding audiences, and it utilizes the methodology of the constructivist paradigm. Given that mandate, it is possible to list the nine major responsibilities that the constructivist evaluator must discharge. He or she must:
		2. Elicit from the stakeholder groups their constructions about the form and process of the evaluand and the range of claims, concerns, and issues they wish to raise in relation to it. The initial list may be rearranged, deleted, or have additions made as the evaluation proceeds.
		2. Identification of the evaluand (the entity to be evaluated). The construction held by the client or sponsor is at best an initial form that is likely to evolve into a series or progression of constructions that emerge.
	www.wmich.edu /evalctr/checklists/constructivisteval.htm (1336 words)

	EDITORL.htm
		We also find that Desirability is rather larger as a semantic class than what might be imagined from the case of Modulation:Inclination, comprising not simply what we might be keen to do, but all that we may be keen on, once done or happened.
		Note that grammatically it ought to refer to pettiness, as belies ought also to propagate syntactically to it, but it is our sense of the evaluative meanings here, of what is being evaluated, that disambiguates the anaphoric reference.
		All the Desirability evaluators point to a single evaluand, and it is not pettiness, which is itself one of these evaluators.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /education/jlemke/editorl.htm (6256 words)

	Research Extract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The key criterion of the objectives approach to program evaluation is to what extent has an evaluand (the entity being evaluated) achieved its objectives?
		Value judgments are made on the basis of the extent to which there is a congruence between the performance of the evaluand and the objectives.
		Thus performance assessment, usually measurable performance, is an important topic in objective based evaluation.
	www.parklane.com.au /scripts/evalnet/ep_get.oci?code=39 (373 words)

	PRISM - Evaluation Consulting Services
		Evaluation is most effective, meaningful, and useful when it is conducted using collborative, participatory and learning-oriented approaches.
		When a wide range of stakeholders are involved in various phases of an evaluation, stakeholders will not only learn more about evaluation, themselves, the evaluand, and the organization, but they will be more likely to use the evaluation's findings.
		Involving a wide range of stakeholders increases the likelihood that multiple perspectives and values will guide the evaluation's design as well as the interpretation of the data thus resulting in more representative findings.
	www.evaluationpractice.com /evaluation.htm (344 words)

	Semiconductor Metrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It includes the process of collecting data which can be used to make claimsabout learning.
		Measurement is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of aprogram or product (known as an evaluand).
		In physics and engineering,measurement is the process of comparing physical quantities ofreal-world objects and events.
	www.witchware.com /File/42987-Semiconductor.Metrology.Html (592 words)

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