The Evaluation of Organizational Policy Making: A Political Model

Stimulating Evaluation Use by Integrating Academia and Practice

“…For example, Suchman (1967) presented an evaluation typology composed of 5 types: effort, efficiency, performance, adequacy of performance, and process evaluation approaches. Schulberg et al (1969) posed 2 major models: goals attainments and system evaluation; and Wergin (1976) discussed 3 types of models: extrapolicy, consisting of impact-focused approaches, suprapolicy or effort-oriented aproaches and intrapolicy, composed of systems approaches.…”

Toward a theory of formative program evaluation

“…There are several possible perspectives on context that might be applied to the design and practice of program evaluation. These include the context of community decision making (Aiken and Alford, 1970), the context of legislative policy development (Zweig, 1981), and the context of organizational behavior (Wergin, 1976). O u r present focus is on in-house formative evaluation, and so we shall analyze decision and action contexts from an organizational perspective.…”

Evaluating faculty development programs

“…But the practitioner has a number of possible ways to, in effect, equalize the social exchange. These are indicated below (Wergin, 1976):…”

“…He must, in short, have a feel for university politics and use such political intelligence both as a means for program design and as a basis for evaluating program success. Without such a political perspective, any evaluation is likely to be ritualistic at best, self-defeating at worst (House, 1974;Wergin, 1976).…”