How To Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation. CSE Program Evaluation Kit, Volume 4. Second Edition Michael Quinn Patton.

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Patton, Michael Quinn

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California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for the Study of Evaluation

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TextPublication details: [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987.Description: 178 pISBN:

9780803931299 :
0803931298 :

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361.61072 PAH 1987

Summary: The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the fourth in the kit, explains the basic assumptions underlying qualitative procedures, suggests evaluation situations where qualitative designs are useful, and provides guidelines for designing qualitative evaluations, including how to use observational methods, how to conduct in-depth, open-ended interviews, and how to analyze qualitative data. The following chapters are included: (1) "An Introduction to Qualitative Methods"; (2) "When To Use Qualitative Methods"; (3) "Designing Qualitative Evaluations"; (4) "Fieldwork and Observation"; (5) "Depth Interviewing"; (6) "Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data"; and (7) "Making Methods Decisions; Controversy and Philosophy." (Contains 3 figures, 3 tables, and 68 references.) (SLD)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Books	Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library General Stacks	361.61072 PAH 1987	Available	Rashid	62145

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The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the fourth in the kit, explains the basic assumptions underlying qualitative procedures, suggests evaluation situations where qualitative designs are useful, and provides guidelines for designing qualitative evaluations, including how to use observational methods, how to conduct in-depth, open-ended interviews, and how to analyze qualitative data. The following chapters are included: (1) "An Introduction to Qualitative Methods"; (2) "When To Use Qualitative Methods"; (3) "Designing Qualitative Evaluations"; (4) "Fieldwork and Observation"; (5) "Depth Interviewing"; (6) "Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data"; and (7) "Making Methods Decisions; Controversy and Philosophy." (Contains 3 figures, 3 tables, and 68 references.) (SLD)

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