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- Title
Close Up and Personal: The Effect of a Research Relationship on an Educational Program Evaluation.
- Authors
Mello, Robin A.
- Abstract
This article addresses the construction of “critical friendships” within the practice of one particular program evaluation. It focuses on the evolution of relationships developed during one 2-year program evaluation study that examined a collaborative educational project. Findings show that a caring interest and mentoring rapport developed between program constituents and evaluator (the author of the study). Further, this study suggests that these relationships were essential to how formative and summative feedback was used. This article suggests that the interplay between evaluator and constituents is best practiced through what House and Howe call a methodological advocacy stance. Finally, it encourages further discourse and investigations into the ways that program evaluation is carried out in order to more thoroughly understand how relationships influence evaluation methodology and practice.
- Subjects
FRIENDSHIP; EDUCATIONAL evaluation; EDUCATIONAL standards; KNOWLEDGE base; LEARNING goals
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 2005, Vol 107, Issue 10, p2351
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9620.2005.00595.x