September 30

Management-Oriented Evaluation Approaches (Ch. 5)
This is used to help management to make decisions.
They identified the decisions that have to be made. However, you have to know your goals before using this approach.

Steps that need to be made
1. Identify the level or scale to be served.
2. For each level to be served identity the decision situations to be served
3. Criteria (variables)
4. Collection-- Then you need to collect information about decision alternatives. consider source, instrument, sampling procedure, schedule.
5. Organize, analyze, and report

This model really seems political.

CIPP Model (based on management-oriented evaluation)
Decision evaluated approach and its goal is to help management make the correct decision.

CIPP Model: helps find the kind of decision that has to be made
Context-planning objectives
Input-structuring decisions
Process-implement decisions
Product-recycle decision
If you were to do a total evaluation you would use everything but you can just do part of it.

Has a good connection with stakeholders but this can be a drawback as well.