Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Thousand Oaks ; London ; New Delhi :
Sage Publications,
c1997.
|
| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Table of Contents:
- 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 evaluation, thinking and experiences
- 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
- Appropriate methods. Evaluations worth using : utilization-focused, methods decisions
- The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis
- The meanings of evaluation data : analysis, interpretation, judgment, and reporting
- Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation. Power, politics, and ethics
- Utilization-focused evaluation : process and premises.