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Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Autor Michael Quinn Patton
en Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 19 iun 2013
Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed 'essentials' book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that actually get used. This book integrates both theory and practice and is not only based on research, but also professional experience.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412998505
ISBN-10: 1412998506
Pagini: 488
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 mm
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"A well-written and interesting presentation of a complex subject."
“Essentials provides an updated and refined U-FE process that reflects the evolving nature of the evaluation field and evaluation use, addresses past criticisms, and provides a process that is more easily followed, iterative as it is...In writing this book, Patton appeared to follow the wisdom of Albert Einstein, who said, ‘Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.’ Patton has done this with Essentials of Utilization Focused Evaluation...The book offers practical exercises at the end of each chapter. These are not exercises for which one can go back and find the answer in the book, but rather applications that require a person to reflect and think. This is in keeping with the U-FE approach, which provides a framework requiring reflection, critical thinking, and flexibility in order to apply it appropriately.”

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
Step 1. Assess and Build Program and Organizational Readiness for Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Step 2. Assess and Enhance Evaluator Readiness and Competence to Undertake a Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Step 3. Identify, Organize, and Engage Primary Intended Users: The Personal Factor
Step 4. Situation Analysis Conducted Jointly With Primary Intended Users
Step 5. Identify and Prioritize Primary Intended Uses by Determining Priority Purposes
Step 6. Consider and Build in Process Uses if and as Appropriate
Step 7. Focus Priority Evaluation Questions
Step 8. Check That Fundamental Areas for Evaluation Inquiry Are Being Adequately Addressed: Implementation, Outcomes, and Attribution Questions
Step 9. Determine What Intervention Model or Theory of Change Is Being Evaluated
Step 10. Negotiate Appropriate Methods to Generate Credible Findings That Support Intended Use by Intended Users
Step 11. Make Sure Intended Users Understand Potential Methods Controversies and Their Implications
Step 12. Simulate Use of Findings: Evaluation's Equivalent of a Dress Rehearsal
Step 13. Gather Data With Ongoing Attention to Use
Step 14. Organize and Present the Data for Interpretation and Use by Primary Intended Users: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
Step 15. Prepare an Evaluation Report to Facilitate Use and Disseminate Significant Findings to Expand Influence
Step 16. Follow Up With Primary Intended Users to Facilitate and Enhance Use
Step 17. Metaevaluation of Use: Be Aaccountable, Learn, and Improve
Summary and Conclusion

Descriere

Incorporating both theory and practice, this text provides students with an essential resource on how to do useful and effective evaluations.