UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION M.PATTON Bankowa.pl

The latest edition of this bestselling book has been completely revised and updated to provide the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS

Evaluation Use
Both Challenge and Mandate
What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation?
How Do You Get Started?
The Personal Factor Intended Uses of Findings
Intended Process Uses
Impacts of Evaluation Thinking and Experiences

PART TWO: FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS AND DECISIONS

Being Active-Reactive-Adaptive
Evaluator Roles, Situational Responsiveness and Strategic
Contingency Thinking
Beyond the Goals Clarification Game
Focusing on Outcomes
Focusing an Evaluation
Alternatives to Goals-Based Evaluation
Implementation Evaluation
What Happened in the Program?
The Program's Theory of Action Conceptualizing
Casual Linkages

PART THREE: APPROPRIATE METHODS

Evaluations Worth Using
Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions
The Paradigms Debate and a Utilitarian Synthesis
Deciphering Data and Reporting Results Analysis, Interpretations, Judgments and Recommendations

PART FOUR: REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION

Power, Politics and Ethics
Utilization-Focused Evaluation Process and Premises

431 pages, paperback

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