Author: Michael Quinn Patto
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: century, text, new, evaluation, focused, utilization
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-10-30
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0803952651
ISBN-13: 9780803952652

Can evaluation be used to improve programs? Can it contribute to program effectiveness? Do evaluators bear any responsibility for evaluation use and program improvement? This skillfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator Michael Quinn Patton grapples with the answers to these questions and provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice. Earlier editions are popular with more than 26,000 students of evaluation as a core or supplemental text. This entirely rewritten edition offers readers a full-fledged evalu

Author: Michael Quinn Patto
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: evaluation, methods, qualitative
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0803931298
ISBN-13: 9780803931299

Michael Quinn Patton’s How to Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation -- a new volume in the Program Evaluation Kit -- reflects the growing use of qualitative techniques in the evaluation process. The author differentiates the qualitative approach in method and philosophy from more traditional quantitative methods and specifies the kinds of evaluation question for which it is most appropriate. The design decisions and sampling strategies which underlie the implementation of the method are explained. Patton also includes step-by-step guides for planning and conducting fieldwork and observat

Author: Michael J. Quinn
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Keywords: openmp, mpi, programming, parallel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $63.29
ISBN-10: 0071232656
ISBN-13: 9780071232654

The era of practical parallel programming has arrived, marked by the popularity of the MPI and OpenMP software standards and the emergence of commodity clusters as the hardware platform of choice for an increasing number of organizations. This exciting new book, "Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP" addresses the needs of students and professionals who want to learn how to design, analyze, implement, and benchmark parallel programs in C using MPI and/or OpenMP. It introduces a rock-solid design methodology with coverage of the most important MPI functions and OpenMP directives. It al

Author: D. Michael Quinn
Publisher: Signature Books
Keywords: power, origins, hierarchy, mormon
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1994-12-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1560850566
ISBN-13: 9781560850564

A Mormon historian traces the evolution of the Latter-day Saints’ organizational structure from the original, egalitarian "priesthood of believers" to an elaborately hierarchical institution. Quinn also documents the alterations in the historical record which obscured these developments and analyzes the five presiding quorums of the LDS hierarchy.

Author: Michael J. Quinn
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: information, ethics
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-02-08
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0132133873
ISBN-13: 9780132133876

This book is appropriate for any standalone “computers and society” or “computer ethics” course offered by a computer science, business, or philosophy department, as well as special "modules" in any advanced CS course. In an era where information technology changes constantly, a thoughtful response to these rapid changes requires a basic understanding of IT history, an awareness of current issues, and a familiarity with ethics. Ethics for the Information Age is unique in its balanced coverage of ethical theories used to analyze problems encountered by computer professionals in today�

Author: Michael J. Quinn
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: information, ethics
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-02-14
List price: $88.00
ISBN-10: 0321536851
ISBN-13: 9780321536853

In an era where information technology changes constantly, a thoughtful response to these rapid changes requires a basic understanding of IT history, an awareness of current issues, and a familiarity with ethics. Ethics for the Information Age provides an overview of ethical theories and problems encountered by computer professionals in today’s environment. Catalysts for Change; Introduction to Ethics; Networking; Intellectual Property; Privacy; Computer and Network Security; Computer Reliability; Professional Ethics; Work and Wealth; Plagiarism. For all readers interested in computers an

Author: D. Michael Quinn
Publisher: Signature Books
Keywords: power, extensions, hierarchy, mormon
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 1997-02-15
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1560850604
ISBN-13: 9781560850601

The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are related to current or past general church authorities. This dynastic hierarchy meets in private; neither its minutes nor the church’s finances are available for public review. Members are reassured by public relations spokesmen that all is well and that harmony prevails among these brethren. But by interviewing former church aides, examining hundreds of diaries, and drawing from his own past experience as an insider within the Latter-day Saint historical department, D. Michael Quinn presen