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From: Michael Scriven (to the EVALTALK list)

For those of you who ask about this - and I hope others will
chime in with other suggestions - the second run of our
Foundations of Evaluation seminar at Claremont Graduate
University is now visible online at
http://www.ed.asu.edu/scriven/.

Its main claim to fame is, I suppose, that it’s the only
place I know of where an attempt is made to base the approach
on the general logic of evaluation and the doctrine of
evaluation as a transdiscipline. We eventually focus on, and
use a text on program evaluation (Worthen, Sanders, and
Fitzpatrick), but we start with and frequently revert to the
foundations of the discipline; and we move in and out of
personnel, product, proposal, policy, and performance
evaluation, plus meta-evaluation and intradisciplinary
evaluation.

What you will see at the Web site is the posted course
documents and missives from the instructional staff,
including a page or two of summary of the weekly seminars,
and you will soon begin to see the comments and questions
from students. There are doctoral and masters students
present from the Drucker school of management, the graduate
school of education, several fields of applied psychology,
and our own students in the Program Design Management and
Evaluation masters degree and, we expect, in the new
Certificate in Advanced Evaluation program (a one-year
program, mainly for mid-career professionals).

If you are inspired to make comments on the discussion which
you’d like to be contributions to the flow, send them to me
and I'll put at least some of them up on the listserv which
is the primary discussion arena and protected for access.
Comments for the instructors alone, including negative
criticism about the process or content, will be much welcomed
(not the same as enjoyed, but part of being valued!).

Everything that goes on the listserv is posted to the Web
site at ten minutes past every hour, and all posts are cross-
indexed by author, date, and topic.

The total cost of setting up and running this for its first
two years was $1500, and the goodwill of Gene Glass at
Arizona State, the AERA webmeister, to whom many thanks
again. (Although I could have done without the portrait,
which he snuck out of the C.G.U. faculty site.) I figure that
by next year we’ll be pretty well debugged and will then
start writing the interactive materials that are still not
available and offer the largest single gain in learning that
one can provide via the internet.

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