The Evaluation Society
ISBN: 9780804776929 | 080477692X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 11/9/2011
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Any public or private organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. But, data from an array of settings and countries indicate that very few evaluations result in any changing action. So, why insist on evaluating? And, what worthwhile results emerge from evaluation? This book answers these questions, using evaluation and organizational theory to offer a fresh perspective.
Evaluation--whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditat... MORE
Evaluation--whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditat... MORE
| Foreword to the English Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Evaluation Wave: From Mystery to Analysis | p. 1 |
| An Organizational Analysis of Evaluation | |
| Organizational Understandings: Rational, Leaning, and Institutionalized Organization | p. 33 |
| Evaluation in the Institutionalized Organization | p. 65 |
| A Sociological Analysis of Evaluation | |
| Modernity and Its "Evaluation Imaginary | p. 99 | ... MORE
| Reflexive Modernity | p. 120 |
| Evaluation in Reflexive Modernity | p. 144 |
| Audit Society, Neorigorism, and Evaluation Machines | p. 169 |
| The Critique of Evaluation- Machines | p. 183 |
| Epilogue: Perspectives for Evaluation | p. 226 |
| References | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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