Utilization-Focused Evaluation
ISBN: 9781412958615 | 141295861X
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 6/18/2008
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The Fourth Edition of the bestselling Utilization-Focused Evaluation provides expert, detailed advice on conducting program evaluations from one of leading experts. Chock full of useful pedagogy-including a unique utilization-focused evaluation checklist-this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than thirty years of experience.Key Features of the Fourth Edition Provides thoroughly updated materials including more international content; new references; new exhibits and sidebars; and new examples, stories, and c... MORE
| Toward More Useful Evaluations | |
| Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate | |
| What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started? | |
| Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor | |
| Intended Uses of Findings | |
| Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences | |
| Focusing Evaluations: Choices, Options, and Decisions | |
| Sit... MORE | |
| Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game | |
| Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives | |
| Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program? | |
| Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change | |
| Appropriate Methods | |
| Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions | |
| The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis | |
| The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations | |
| Realities and Practicalities of Utilization-Focused Evaluation | |
| Power, Politics, and Ethics | |
| Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises | |
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