Creative Evaluation

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Evaluation is both entertaining and stimulating reading for the practising evaluator looking for fruitful new ways of approaching evaluation research, training and consultation. The author's basic themes include the necessity for evaluators to recognize the limitations of routine response patterns, the value of situational responsiveness and the need to test new approaches and perspectives. Patton lets readers discover their own creative potential by guiding them towards expanding their options through a new awareness of the standard operating procedures evaluators fall back on and their usual way of doing things. This revised second edition is geared more closely to the professional evaluator than the first edition.

Author : Hiesun Cecilia Suhr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317748735
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts written by Hiesun Cecilia Suhr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and artistic expressions. The practices of "liking" and rating any shared contents such as music to blogs, film, videos, photographs to artwork and performances are ubiquitous in today’s digital environments. As a result, creative producers are increasingly developing reputations and careers through a complex blend of online social reputation management and distribution platforms, and more longstanding forms of marketing channels and professional evaluation. In this context, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts seeks to examine the newly emerging forms of evaluation, such as contests, competitions, ranking, commenting, liking, and rating, which are taking place in digital environments. In doing so, this book investigates the criteria and assessment practices tied to the evaluation of creativity and artistic works and further questions what is at stake when digital environments heighten the role of amateur and peer criticism to the level of expert critiques. While exploring potential informal learning opportunities and offering incisive critiques on the emerging norms and standards of evaluation, the essays in this book cover a wide range of artistic and creative practices.

Author : Mika Hämäläinen
Publisher : Mika Hämäläinen
ISBN 13 : 9515167078
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generating Creative Language - Theories, Practice and Evaluation written by Mika Hämäläinen and published by Mika Hämäläinen. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents approaches to computationally creative natural language generation focusing on theoretical foundations, practical solutions and evaluation. I defend that a theoretical definition is crucial for computational creativity and that the practical solution must closely follow the theoretical definition. Finally, evaluation must be based on the underlying theory and what was actually modelled in the practical solution. A theoretical void in the existing theoretical work on computational creativity is identified. The existing theories do not explicitly take into account the communicative nature of natural language. Therefore, a new theoretical framework is elaborated that identifies how computational creativity can take place in a setting that has a clear communicative goal. This introduces a communicative-creative trade off that sets limits to creativity in such a communicative context. My framework divides creativity in three categories: message creativity, contextual creativity and communicative creativity. Any computationally creative NLG approach not taking communicativity into account is called mere surface generation. I propose a novel master-apprentice approach for creative language generation. The approach consists of a genetic algorithm, the fitness functions of which correspond to different parameters defined as important for the creative task in question from a theoretical perspective. The output of the genetic algorithm together with possible human authored data are used to train the apprentice, which is a sequence-to-sequence neural network model. The role of the apprentice in the system is to approximate creative autonomy. Evaluation is approached from three different perspectives in this work: ad-hoc and abstract, theory-based and abstract, and theory-based and concrete. The first perspective is the most common one in the current literature and its shortcomings are demonstrated and discussed. This starts a gradual shift towards more meaningful evaluation by first using proper theories to define the task being modelled and finally reducing the room for subjective interpretation by suggesting the use of concrete evaluation questions.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000993213
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work written by Jeannette Littlemore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with 31 current and former employees of the British Civil Service. Metaphor is often used to express evaluation but relatively few studies have investigated the ways in which metaphor is used to evaluate personal emotionally charged experiences. The volume explores how metaphor serves a predominantly evaluative function, with creatively used metaphors often more likely than conventional metaphors to perform an evaluative function, particularly when the evaluation is negative or ambiguous. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between evaluation, creativity, and metaphor. Examples, including military metaphors and family metaphors, show how creativity often comes through subverting the norms of use of a particular metaphor category, or altering the valence from its conventional use. The study elucidates the myriad ways in which people push at the boundaries of linguistic creativity in their efforts to describe the qualitative nature of their experiences. Demonstrating how metaphor can be a powerful tool for the nuanced expression of complex and ambiguous evaluation, this book will appeal to researchers interested in better understanding metaphor, creativity, evaluation, and workplace cultures.

Author : Ellis Paul Torrance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8H/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development and Evaluation of Recorded Programmed Experiences in Creative Thinking in the Fourth Grade written by Ellis Paul Torrance and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning for Creative Change in Mental Health Services: Use of program evaluation written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn M. Callahan
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781412904360
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Program Evaluation in Gifted Education written by Carolyn M. Callahan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a 12-volume set, each article in this volume provides an overview of the material to be presented, presents research, and discusses how readers can put the research to use.

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patton draws on his experiences in over 200 evaluation workshops, 80 evaluation projects and extensive consultations, to explore the actual processes of evaluation as it is practised -- and ways of transcending them. Patton shows how to move beyond the usual limitations of the discipline through imaginative search procedures, communication techniques, group relations, and ways of thinking. `Patton brings to the frustrated, joyless or just plain tired evaluator an entertaining and stimulating book...This book is worth reading just for its lively, humorous and thought provoking collection of quotes about evaluation and much more.' -- Evaluation Division Newsletter, July 1983

Author : Green, Jackie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335219152
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation written by Green, Jackie and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is evaluation? This work provides an examination of the key theories and principles underpinning approaches to evaluation. It offers a guide to how these principles can be implemented in practice and provides insights into dealing with some of the real-life challenges and complexities of evaluation.

Author : Bruce B. Frey
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506326145
Total Pages : 1996 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation written by Bruce B. Frey and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 1996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia is the first major reference guide for students new to the field, covering traditional areas while pointing the way to future developments.