Utilization-Focused Evaluation
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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 cartoons
- Includes follow-up exercises at the end of each chapter
- Features a utilization-focused evaluation checklist
- Gives greater emphasis on mixed methods
- Analyzes the pluses and minuses of the increased emphasis on accountability and performance measurement in government at all levels
- Details the explosion of international evaluation
Intended Audience
Both theoretical and practical, this core text is an essential resource for students enrolled in Program Evaluation courses in a variety of disciplines—including public administration, government, social sciences, education, and management. Practitioners will also find this text invaluable.
Contents
PART I. TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS
- 1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate
- 2. What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started?
- 3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor
- 4. Intended Uses of Findings
- 5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences
PART II. FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS, AND DECISIONS
- 6. Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive
- 7. Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game
- 8. Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives
- 9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program?
- 10. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change
PART III. APPROPRIATE METHODS
- 11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions
- 12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis
- 13. The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
PART IV. REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION
- 14. Power, Politics, and Ethics
- 15. Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises
Description
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 cartoons
- Includes follow-up exercises at the end of each chapter
- Features a utilization-focused evaluation checklist
- Gives greater emphasis on mixed methods
- Analyzes the pluses and minuses of the increased emphasis on accountability and performance measurement in government at all levels
- Details the explosion of international evaluation
Intended Audience
Both theoretical and practical, this core text is an essential resource for students enrolled in Program Evaluation courses in a variety of disciplines—including public administration, government, social sciences, education, and management. Practitioners will also find this text invaluable.
Contents
PART I. TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS
- 1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate
- 2. What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started?
- 3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor
- 4. Intended Uses of Findings
- 5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences
PART II. FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS, AND DECISIONS
- 6. Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive
- 7. Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game
- 8. Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives
- 9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program?
- 10. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change
PART III. APPROPRIATE METHODS
- 11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions
- 12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis
- 13. The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
PART IV. REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION
- 14. Power, Politics, and Ethics
- 15. Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises
June 2008 | 688 pages | Sage US
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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 cartoons
- Includes follow-up exercises at the end of each chapter
- Features a utilization-focused evaluation checklist
- Gives greater emphasis on mixed methods
- Analyzes the pluses and minuses of the increased emphasis on accountability and performance measurement in government at all levels
- Details the explosion of international evaluation
Intended Audience
Both theoretical and practical, this core text is an essential resource for students enrolled in Program Evaluation courses in a variety of disciplines—including public administration, government, social sciences, education, and management. Practitioners will also find this text invaluable.
Table Of Contents:
- PART I. TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS
- 1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate
- 2. What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started?
- 3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor
- 4. Intended Uses of Findings
- 5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences
- PART II. FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS, AND DECISIONS
- 6. Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive
- 7. Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game
- 8. Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives
- 9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program?
- 10. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change
- PART III. APPROPRIATE METHODS
- 11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions
- 12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis
- 13. The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
- PART IV. REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION
- 14. Power, Politics, and Ethics
- 15. Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises