Occasional Paper Series
The Evaluation Center

The Occasional Paper Series is published by The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University. The purpose of the Series, is to

  • To disseminate lessons learned from Center projects and lessons learned elsewhere that are clearly relevant to the Center's mission of advancing the theory and practice of evaluation.
  • To help evaluation writers put out for review and receive feedback on draft versions of their developing ideas.
  • To disseminate exemplary reports that demonstrate effective ways of presenting evaluation findings.
  • To disseminate instructional aids for teaching the functions, models, methodology, etc., of evaluation.

    Papers in this Series

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    TITLE / AUTHOR


    DATE
    NEW!  #20    –    The Inaugural Assembly of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation:  The Realization of a Utopian Dream (Craig Russon & Arnold Love)  [PDF (135 KB)] 7 / 2003

    #19    –   Consuelo Foundation's Use of Evaluation to Guide and Strengthen its Hawaii and Philippine Community Development and Housing Programs (Lori A. Wingate, Editor)  [Purchase a hard copy for $12.00]

    		 6 / 2002
    #18  –  Strategies for Institutionalizing Evaluation:  Revisited (Daniel L. Stufflebeam)  [HTML]  [PDF (156KB)]  [Purchase a hard copy for $12.00] 7 / 2000
    #17  –  Program Evaluation Standards in International Settings (Craig Russon, Editor)  [PDF (560 KB)]  [Purchase a hard copy for $12.00] 8 / 2000
    #16  –  Foundational Models for 21st Century Program Evaluation (Daniel L. Stufflebeam)  [HTML]  [PDF (574 KB)] 12 / 1999
    #15  –  Creating a Worldwide Evaluation Community (Edited by Craig Russon and Arnold Love )  [HTML]  [PDF (245KB)] 1 / 1999
    #14  –  Content Specialization and Education Evaluation:  A Necessary Marriage? (Blaine R. Worthen, James R. Sanders)  [HTML]  [PDF (57KB)] 10 / 1984
    #13  –  An Interview with Ralph Tyler (Jeri Ridings Nowakowski)  [HTML]  [PDF (69KB)] 11 / 1981
    #12  –  Story Telling and Educational Understanding (Terry Denny)  [HTML]  [PDF (41KB)] 11 / 1978
    #11  –  Performance Standards (Nancy W. Burton)  [HTML]  [PDF (38KB)] 12 / 1977
    #10  –  Standards and Criteria (Gene V. Glass)  [HTML]  [PDF (2.5MB)] 12 / 1977
      #9  –  A Checklist for Evaluating Large-Scale Assessment Programs (Lorrie Shepard)  [HTML]  [PDF (83KB)] 4 / 1977
      #8  –  Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change (Donald T. Campbell)  [HTML]  [PDF (197KB)] 12 / 1974
      #7  –  Needed: Instruments as Good as our Eyes (Henry M. Brickell)  [HTML]  [PDF (23KB)] 7 / 1976
      #6  –  A Basis of Determining the Adequacy of Evaluation Designs (James R. Sanders, Dean H. Nafziger)  [HTML]  [PDF (4.1MB)] 4 / 1976
      #5  –  Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation (Robert E. Stake)  [HTML]  [PDF (1.3MB)] 11 / 1975
      #4  –  Evaluation Bias and Its Control (Michael Scriven)  [HTML]  [PDF (77KB)] 6 / 1975
      #3  –  Meta Evaluation (Daniel L. Stufflebeam)  [PDF (165KB)] 12 / 1974
      #2  –  An Administrator's Perspective of Evaluation (Jack Taylor)  [HTML]  [PDF (42KB)] 10 / 1974
      #1  –  A Response to the Michigan Education Department's Defense of Their Accountability System (Daniel L. Stufflebeam)  [HTML]  [PDF (48KB)] 8 / 1974

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