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Education & learning publications October 1, 2010 Journal Article

Using large-scale databases in evaluation: Advances, opportunities, and challenges.

SRI International October 1, 2010

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Penuel, W. R., & Means, B. (2010) Using large-scale databases in evaluation: Advances, opportunities, and challenges. American Journal of Evaluation, 1-15.

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Major advances in the number, capabilities, and quality of state, national, and transnational databases have opened up new opportunities for evaluators. Both large-scale data sets collected for adminis-trative purposes and those collected by other researchers can provide data for a variety of evaluation-related activities. These include (a) identifying or highlighting issues that invite greater cli-ent attention; (b) establishing the plausibility of policy theories of action; and (c) program evaluation. The authors illustrate through examples from the fields of education, social services, and public health both the opportunities provided by higher quality, interoperable data systems and the chal-lenges encountered when using databases to identify issues of concern, test the plausibility of a pro-posed theory of action, or evaluate an existing program. The authors then explore implications for roles evaluators may need to play to support these uses of databases and for funding and infrastruc-ture to support greater evaluator involvement in program planning and improvement.

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