Social Construction of Reality - Bad Request

twin significances: procedural, easily adaptable to the types of replicatable actions
typified within model construction; and the significance of process use as what Patton
(2007) would deem a “sensitizing concept…as a container for capturing, holding, and
examining these manifestations to better understand patterns and implications” (p. 102).
The later idea is fluid, and as such is not as discrete in nature as what the study originally
planned to address. Nonetheless priorities for The School District and tools for future
program evaluations came about as a result of this study, even if, strictly speaking, a
comprehensive, consistently replicable model did not.
Priorities originated within each theme: procedural and process use. Within the
procedural theme, several priorities emerged: (a) The School District must agree upon
what constitutes a program; (b) the emergent tool or model must account for cost per unit
of investment and/or return on investment; (c) the emergent model must eventually
include a processes/policies/philosophies handbook. It was found that failure to provide
for issues related to this theme have in the past and will continue in the future to result in
negative complications within the four frames of the organization: human resources,
structural, political, and symbolic.
Within the process theme, five targeted benefits of program evaluation emerged:
1. Collaboration, process and results, can be engendered and promoted.
2. The School District’s vision, mission, goals, and values can be reified and
promoted.
3. Organizational sacred cows can be assailed.
4. Program and organizational ownership can be increased at a variety of levels.
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