Evaluation Research - JSM480

• Title: Evaluation Research
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2012 to 2013
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jiří Remr, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jiří Remr, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Aim of the course

Course objectives:

This course has multiple student learning objectives. Students will be expected to develop the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
     a) To understand the nature and purpose of evaluation
     b) To learn evaluation concepts/vocabulary/terminology
     c) To understand wide array of evaluation theory and practice
     d) To grasp fundamental methodology of evaluation
     e) To understand the key distinctions between evaluation and surveys, auditing, etc.

This class meets in Jinonice building, room B228, from 11:00 to 12:20 on Thursdays beginning on October 3, 2024 and ending on December 19, 2024.

Last update: Remr Jiří, Mgr., Ph.D. (26.06.2025)

Course completion requirements

Examination:

Students are required to complete mid-term and final tests (closed-book exam; single best answers).

Grading:

     91-100 % = A

     81-90 % = B

     71-80 % = C

     61-70 % = D

     51-60 % = E

     < 50 % = F (failed; not passed)

Last update: Remr Jiří, Mgr., Ph.D. (26.06.2025)

Literature

Obligatory reading:

Morra Imas, L. G., Rist, R. C. (2009). The Road to Results : Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations. Washington, World Bank

Alkin, M. C. (2011). Evaluation essentials: From A to Z. New York, NY: The. Guilford Press

 

Recommended reading:

Berk, R.A., Rossi, P.H., 1999. Thinking About Program Evaluation 2. London, Sage Publishing

Clark, A., 1999. Evaluation Research. London, Sage Publications

Fitzpatrick, J.L., Morris, M. (eds.), 1999. Current and Emerging Ethical Challenges in Evaluation. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers

Guba, E.G., Lincoln, Y.S., 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. London, Sage Publishing

Owen, J.M., 2006. Program Evaluation. Forms and Approaches. New York, The Guilford Press

Rossi, P.H., Lipsey, M.W., Freeman, H.E., 2004. Evaluation. A Systematic Approach. London, Sage Publications

Scriven, M., 1991. Evaluation Thesaurus. London, Sage Publishing

 

Last update: Remr Jiří, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)