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Author: Marvin C. Alkin
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-02-19
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0761928944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInitially, evaluation was derived from social science research methodology and accountability concerns. This book examines evaluation theories and traces their evolution with the point of view that theories build upon theories and, therefore, evaluation theories are related to each other.
Author: Marvin C. Alkin
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1462551408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*Major revision of a work that gives researchers the tools to select the right theory for their evaluation task. *Clearly lays out the goals of each theory, how it translates into practice, and the conditions under which it is best applicable. *Third edition has an increased focus on diversity/equity and is organized around theories rather than individual theorists. *Top editors and contributors are highly regarded, experienced evaluators.
Author: Marvin C. Alkin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1483333078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists’ Views and Influences, Second Edition provides an updated examination of current evaluation theories and traces their evolution. Marvin C. Alkin shows how theories build upon theories and how the theories are related to each other. The way in which these evaluation "roots" grew to form a tree helps to provide a better understanding of evaluation theory. In addition to the editor's overview, the book contains essays by leading evaluation theorists. In these pieces, the evaluators comment on their own development and give their views of their placement upon the tree. **All royalties from sales of this book are donated to support the AEA Research on Evaluation Student Award.**
Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010-06-14
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1606238868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.
Author: Jill Anne Chouinard
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2019-09-27
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1506368522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues. Evaluations that explicitly aim to be more responsive to culture and cultural context are, however, a more recent phenomenon. In this book, Jill Anne Chouinard and Fiona Cram utilize a conceptual framework that foregrounds culture in social inquiry, and then uses that framework to analyze empirical studies across three distinct cultural domains of evaluation practice (Western, Indigenous and international development). Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation provide a comparative analysis of these studies and discuss lessons drawn from them in order to help evaluators extend their current thinking and practice. They conclude with an agenda for future research.
Author: Eleanor Chelimsky
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0761906118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators' chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0309452961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author: John M Owen
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1999-04-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780761961789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing an original framework, this practical introduction to evaluation shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, involve stakeholders in the planning process and disseminate the evaluation findings.
Author: Ray Pawson
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1446290980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme building and to assess its outcomes. As such, they labour under the highest expectations - bringing independence and objectivity to policy making. They face huge challenges, given the complexity of modern interventions and the politicised backdrop to all of their investigations. They have responded with a huge portfolio of research techniques and, through their professional associations, have set up schemes to establish standards for evaluative inquiry and to accredit evaluation practitioners. A big question remains. Has this monumental effort produced a progressive, cumulative and authoritative body of knowledge that we might think of as evaluation science? This is the question addressed by Ray Pawson in this sequel to Realistic Evaluation and Evidence-based Policy. In answer, he provides a detailed blueprint for an evaluation science based on realist principles.
Author: Martin H. Jason
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1452211426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated edition on evaluating the effectiveness of school programs provides an expanded needs-assessment section, additional methods for data analysis, and tools for communicating program results.
