Book Review: Quality: From Plato to Performance

Altschuld J. W. Watkins R. (2014). A primer on needs assessment: More than 40 years of research and practice. New Directions for Evaluation, 2014(144), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20099

Dahler-Larsen P. (2010). Defining quality in evaluation. In Peterson P. Baker E. McGaw B. (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (3rd ed., pp. 775–780). Elsevier.

Dahler-Larsen P. (2011). The evaluation society. Stanford University Press.

Eisner E. W. (1976). Educational connoisseurship and criticism: Their form and functions. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 10(3/4), 135–150.

Guba E. G. (Ed.). (1990). The paradigm dialog. Sage.

House E. R. Howe K. R. (2000). Deliberative democratic evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, 2000(85), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.1157

Julnes G. (2015). Managing evaluation theories, practices, and communities. American Journal of Evaluation, 36(4), 584–600. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214015599636

Patton M. Q. (2008). Utilization-focused evaluation (4th ed.). Sage.

Rosenberg A. (2005). Philosophy of science: A contemporary introduction (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Schwandt T. A. (1990). Defining “quality” in evaluation. Evaluation and Program Planning, 13(2), 177–188.

Schwandt T. A. (1997). Practical hermeneutics. Evaluation, 3(1), 69–83.

Schwandt T. A. (2003). “Back to the rough ground!” Beyond theory to practice in evaluation. Evaluation, 9(3), 353–364.

Schwandt T. A. (2018). Acting together in determining value: A professional ethical responsibility of evaluators. Evaluation, 24(3), 306–317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389018781362

Scriven M. (1991). Evaluation thesaurus. Sage.

Scriven M. (2007). The logic of evaluation. In Hansen H. V. , et al. (Eds.), Dissensus and the search for common ground (CD-ROM, pp. 1–16). OSSA.

Scriven M. Roth J. (1990). Special feature: Needs assessment. American Journal of Evaluation, 11(2), 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1177/109821409001100207

Wandersman A. Imm P. Chinman M. Kaftarian S. (2000). Getting to outcomes: A results-based approach to accountability. Evaluation and Program Planning, 23(3), 389–395. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00028-8

Witkin B. R. (1994). Needs assessment since 1981: The state of the practice. Evaluation Practice, 15(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/0886-1633(94)90056-6

Yarbrough D. B. Shulha L. M. Hopson R. K. Caruthers F. A. (2011). Program evaluation standards statements: Joint committee on standards for educational evaluation (3rd ed.). Sage.