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Evaluating Student Volunteer And Service-Learning Programs: A Casebook For Practitioners, Michele Whitham, Eric C. Little, Michael Whitesage, Richard Cone, Jane Szuru Permal, Jack Knott, Roy A. Weaver, James H. Mcelhinney, Joyce K. Allen, Roger Henry, Terrence J. Mctaggart, Janet Warnert Nov 1983

Evaluating Student Volunteer And Service-Learning Programs: A Casebook For Practitioners, Michele Whitham, Eric C. Little, Michael Whitesage, Richard Cone, Jane Szuru Permal, Jack Knott, Roy A. Weaver, James H. Mcelhinney, Joyce K. Allen, Roger Henry, Terrence J. Mctaggart, Janet Warnert

Evaluation/Reflection

Today, evaluation concepts and methods are widely available to those who plan and administer student volunteer programs. Unfortunately, however, evaluation has all too often been carried out-and written about-in ways that have robbed it of its usefulness to people dealing with the realities of day-to-day program operation. Evaluation has thus acquired the reputation among practitioners of being too complex, too costly, too time-consuming, even too threatening to be of much practical value.

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Learning Outcomes: The Measurement And Evaluation Of Experimential Learning, John S. Duley Jan 1982

Learning Outcomes: The Measurement And Evaluation Of Experimential Learning, John S. Duley

Evaluation/Reflection

The focus of this paper is on measuring and evaluating the learning acquired by students in field experience education, not on program evaluation. This paper serves as an introduction and supplement to the books listed on the last page. One of these, EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN FIELD PLACEMENT, is provided as part of this PANEL Resource Paper.

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Staff Use Of Time And Evaluation Of Teacher Training, Genevieve Burch Oct 1980

Staff Use Of Time And Evaluation Of Teacher Training, Genevieve Burch

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Second Year Evaluation of an Alcohol Prevention Program in Four Catholic High Schools

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Evaluating Serving Learning Programs: A Guide Of Program Coordinators, Action Jan 1978

Evaluating Serving Learning Programs: A Guide Of Program Coordinators, Action

Evaluation/Reflection

Evaluation is a skill which is often surrounded with an aura of mystery. As a result, many program coordinators are reluctant to undertake evaluations. Some feel they do not have the necessary and special skills. Others do not see how evaluation -- which seems to concern itself with past activity-- can work to make programs different or better in the future. In point of fact, however, evaluation is one of the administrator's most important tools for planning future operations. And evaluation is most definitely a tool that can be used successfully by program coordinators who have not had any special …

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Service-Learning, Donald J. Eberly Jan 1976