Evaluation research methods /
Evaluation research methods /
edited by Elliot Stern.
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Sage benchmarks in social research methods .
- Sage benchmarks in social research methods. .
Includes bibliographical references.
v. 1. Foundations issues in evaluation -- v. 2. Evaluation practice for engagement -- v. 3. Explanatory and economic models -- v. 4. Strengthening policies and programmes -- -- Foundations Issues in Evaluation -- Typologies and Paradigms -- The Logic of Evaluation and Evaluation Practice / Evaluation as Sensemaking / Knowledge Construction in a Realist World Establishing Evaluative Conclusions / A Distinction between General and Working Logic Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics / In with the New / Introducing Scientific Realism A Theoretical Framework and Grid for Analysis of Programme-Evaluation Practices / Policy Evaluation and Learning / Feedback, Enlightenment or Argumentation? Merit Criteria and Performance Standards / Public Managers amidst Ambiguity: Towards a Typology of Evaluative Practices in Public Management / Ethics and Values -- Evaluation as Advocacy / How We Inhabit our Evaluations / Research on Evaluation Ethics / What Have we Learned and Why Is It Important?Anything Goes / Evaluation and Relativism The Limits of Constructivism in Evaluation / The Future of Ethics in Evaluation: Developing the Dialogue / Quantitative and Qualitative Debates -- Specifying Inquiry Modes / Philosophy of Science and the Quantitative-Qualitative Debates / Thirteen Common Errors The Foundations of Qualitative Research / Michael Scriven -- George Julnes and Melvin M Mark -- Deborah M Fournier -- Thomas A Schwandt -- Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley -- Michel Demarteau -- Peter van der Knaap -- Evert Vedung -- Tineke A Abma and Mirko Noordegraaf -- Jennifer C Greene -- Saville Kushner -- Michael Morris -- Clem Adelman -- Saville Kushner -- Dianna L Newman -- Melvin M Mark, Gary T Henry and George Julnes -- William R Shadish -- Dawn Snape and Liz Spencer -- Volume One: -- Part One. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Evaluation Practicefor Engagement -- Case Studies and Dialogical Methods -- The Abridged Version of Case Study Research / Design and Method A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool / The Most Significant Change Technique Stake's Responsive Evaluation: Core Ideas and Evolution / Participation and Empowerment -- Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice / Empowerment Evaluation - David M Fetterman Participatory Program Planning / Including Program Participants and Evaluators Democratic Evaluation / From Empowerment Evaluation to Public Decision-Making Participatory Evaluation in a Community Organization: Fostering Stakeholder Empowerment and Utilization / Combining Methods and Data -- Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs - Jennifer C Greene, Valerie J Caracelli and Wendy F Graham An Example of Qualitative Research Methods in Realist Evaluation / From Puzzles to Problems / Assessing the Value of Education in a Business Context with Concept Mapping and Pattern Matching Qualitative Evaluations, Combined Methods and Key Challenges: General Lessons from the Qualitative Evaluation of Community Intervention in Stroke Rehabilitation / Planning and Managing Evaluation -- Beginning an Evaluation with RUFDATA / Theorizing a Practical Approach to Evaluation Planning Evaluability Assessment / Reflections on the Process Method RENOMO - A Design Tool for Evaluations: Designing Evaluations Responsive to Stakeholders' Interests by Working with Nominal Groups using the Moderation / Multi-Site and Multi-Level Evaluation -- A Framework for Understanding and Improving Multisite Evaluations / Conceptual Challenges Confronting Cluster Evaluation / Local Evaluation in a National Early Years Excellence Centres Pilot Programme: Integrating Performance Management and Participatory Evaluation / Evaluative Site Visits: A Methodological Review / Robert K Yin -- Jessica Dart and Rick Davies -- Tineke A Abma and Robert E Stake -- Ernest R House and Kenneth R Howe -- Laura Nichols -- Beatrice Floc'hlay and Eric Plottu -- Danielle Papineau and Margaret C Kiely -- Mansoor A F Kazi -- Daniel J McLinden and William MK Trochim -- Jeff Hearn, John Lawler and George Dowswell -- Murray Saunders -- M F Smith -- Wolfgang Beywl and Philip Potter -- Roger B Straw and James M Herrell -- Blaine R Worthen and Constance C Schmitz -- Colin Biott and Tina Cook -- Frances Lawrenz, Nanette Keiser and Bethann Lavoie -- Volume Two: -- Part Two. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Section Four. Section Five. Explanatory and Economic Models -- Programme Theory and Logic Models -- Program Theory / Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work Theory-Driven Program Evaluation in the New Millennium / Logic Models / A Tool for Telling Your Programs Performance Story Implementing a Theory of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative / The Case of the Urban Health Initiative A Pattern-Matching Approach to Link Program Theory and Evaluation Data / Reconstructing Program Theories: Methods Available and Problems to be Solved / Experiments and Their Limits -- Reforms as Experiments / The False Choice between Theory-Based Evaluation and Experimentation / Methods for the Experimenting Society / The Randomised Trial / A Critique from the Philosophy of Science Should Evaluation be Freed from Its Causal Links? An Answer Illustrated by European Economic Development Policies / Economics and Costs -- Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field / Making Ends Meet Cost-Analysis Approaches in Evaluation and Decision Making / Policy Evaluation and the Concepts of Deadweight and Additionality / A Commentary The Limits of Cost Benefit Evaluation / Ethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / Strengthening Policies and Programmes -- Performance Management and Outcomes -- Evaluation Research and the Performance Management Movement / From Estrangement to Useful Integration?Outcomes and the Problem / Patricia J Rogers -- Stewart I Donaldson -- John A McLaughlin and Gretchen B Jordan -- Sharon Milligan et al -- Jules M Marquart -- Frans L Leeuw -- Donald T Campbell -- Thomas D Cook -- Donald T Campbell -- Lone Scocozza -- Jacques Toulemonde -- Tom A J Sefton -- Henry M Levin and Patrick J McEwan -- James J McEldowney -- Ernest R House -- Steven D Pinkerton et al -- Ann Bonar Blalock -- Lawrence B Mohr -- Volume Three: -- Part Three. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Part Four. Section One. STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES (continued) -- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES (continued) -- Bridging the Macro and Micro Levels in Outcome Evaluation / Evaluation and the Social Construction of Impacts / Effectiveness in Health Promotion / Indicators and Evidence of Success Desk Screening of Development Projects / Is It Effective?Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement / Opportunities for Program Evaluators to Facilitate Performance-Based Management / CAPACITY AND UTILISATION Developing Systematic Internal Evaluation(Arnold J Love ) -- Improving the Quality of Internal Evaluation / The Evaluator as Consultant-Mediator Internal Evaluation / A Synthesis of Traditional Methods and Industrial Engineering Have We Learned Anything New about the Use of Evaluation? / The Evaluator's Responsibility for Utilization / Building Evaluation Capacity within Organisations / Evaluation Utilization as Argumentation / Policy, Evidence and Learning -- Evaluation for Decisions / Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?From Knowing to Doing / A Framework for Understanding the Evidence-Into-Practice Agenda Evidence-Based Policy / In Search of a Method Evidence-Based Policy / The Promise of 'Realist Synthesis'Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research / Towards an Evaluation of the Effects of Laws: Utilizing Time-Series Data of Complaints / Ingrid M E Munck -- Frans-Bauke van der Meer -- Keith Tones -- Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard -- Burt Perrin -- M A Scheirer and K Newcomer -- Rosalie T Torres -- Jonathan A Morell -- Carol H Weiss -- Michael Quinn Patton -- Richard C Sonnichsen -- Ville Valovirta -- Carol H Weiss -- Sandra Nutley, Isabel Walter and Huw T O Davies -- Ray Pawson -- Ray Pawson -- Paul A Sabatier -- Sidsel Sverdrup. Volume Four: -- Part Four. Section One. Section Two. Section Three.
"Evaluation is a set of research methods and associated methodologies with a distinctive purpose. They provide a means to judge actions and activities in terms of values, criteria and standards. At the same time evaluation is also a practice that seeks to enhance effectiveness in the public sphere and policy making. In order to improve as well as judge, there is a need to explain what happens and would have to be done differently for different outcomes to be achieved. It is in this explanatory mode that evaluation overlaps most directly with mainstream social science.; ; This collection offers a complete guide to evaluations research methods. It is organized in four volumes. ; ; Volume 1 focuses on foundation issues and includes sections on the rationale for evaluation, central methodological debates, the role of theory and applying values, criteria and standards. ; ; Volume 2 examines explaining through evaluation and covers sections on experimentation and causal inference, outcomes and inputs, socio-economic indicators, economics and cost benefit approaches and realist methods. ; ; Volume 3 addresses qualitative methods and includes sections on case studies, responsive, developmental and accompanying evaluation, participation and empowerment, constructivism and postmodernism and multi-criteria and classificatory methods. ; ; Volume 4 concentrates on evaluation to improve policy with sections on performance management, systematic reviews, institutionalization and utilization and policy learning and design. ; ; The collection offers a unique and unparalleled guide to this rapidly expanding research method. It demonstrates how method and theory are applied in policy and strategy and will be an invaluable addition to any social science library.; ; Elliot Stern is the editor of Evaluation: the International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, and works both as an independent consultant. He was previously Principal Advisor for evaluation studies at the Tavistock Institute, London."--Publisher description.
1412901529 9781412901529
2004116098
Evaluation research (Social action programs)--Methodology
H62 / .E8477 2005
300.723
Includes bibliographical references.
v. 1. Foundations issues in evaluation -- v. 2. Evaluation practice for engagement -- v. 3. Explanatory and economic models -- v. 4. Strengthening policies and programmes -- -- Foundations Issues in Evaluation -- Typologies and Paradigms -- The Logic of Evaluation and Evaluation Practice / Evaluation as Sensemaking / Knowledge Construction in a Realist World Establishing Evaluative Conclusions / A Distinction between General and Working Logic Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics / In with the New / Introducing Scientific Realism A Theoretical Framework and Grid for Analysis of Programme-Evaluation Practices / Policy Evaluation and Learning / Feedback, Enlightenment or Argumentation? Merit Criteria and Performance Standards / Public Managers amidst Ambiguity: Towards a Typology of Evaluative Practices in Public Management / Ethics and Values -- Evaluation as Advocacy / How We Inhabit our Evaluations / Research on Evaluation Ethics / What Have we Learned and Why Is It Important?Anything Goes / Evaluation and Relativism The Limits of Constructivism in Evaluation / The Future of Ethics in Evaluation: Developing the Dialogue / Quantitative and Qualitative Debates -- Specifying Inquiry Modes / Philosophy of Science and the Quantitative-Qualitative Debates / Thirteen Common Errors The Foundations of Qualitative Research / Michael Scriven -- George Julnes and Melvin M Mark -- Deborah M Fournier -- Thomas A Schwandt -- Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley -- Michel Demarteau -- Peter van der Knaap -- Evert Vedung -- Tineke A Abma and Mirko Noordegraaf -- Jennifer C Greene -- Saville Kushner -- Michael Morris -- Clem Adelman -- Saville Kushner -- Dianna L Newman -- Melvin M Mark, Gary T Henry and George Julnes -- William R Shadish -- Dawn Snape and Liz Spencer -- Volume One: -- Part One. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Evaluation Practicefor Engagement -- Case Studies and Dialogical Methods -- The Abridged Version of Case Study Research / Design and Method A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool / The Most Significant Change Technique Stake's Responsive Evaluation: Core Ideas and Evolution / Participation and Empowerment -- Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice / Empowerment Evaluation - David M Fetterman Participatory Program Planning / Including Program Participants and Evaluators Democratic Evaluation / From Empowerment Evaluation to Public Decision-Making Participatory Evaluation in a Community Organization: Fostering Stakeholder Empowerment and Utilization / Combining Methods and Data -- Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs - Jennifer C Greene, Valerie J Caracelli and Wendy F Graham An Example of Qualitative Research Methods in Realist Evaluation / From Puzzles to Problems / Assessing the Value of Education in a Business Context with Concept Mapping and Pattern Matching Qualitative Evaluations, Combined Methods and Key Challenges: General Lessons from the Qualitative Evaluation of Community Intervention in Stroke Rehabilitation / Planning and Managing Evaluation -- Beginning an Evaluation with RUFDATA / Theorizing a Practical Approach to Evaluation Planning Evaluability Assessment / Reflections on the Process Method RENOMO - A Design Tool for Evaluations: Designing Evaluations Responsive to Stakeholders' Interests by Working with Nominal Groups using the Moderation / Multi-Site and Multi-Level Evaluation -- A Framework for Understanding and Improving Multisite Evaluations / Conceptual Challenges Confronting Cluster Evaluation / Local Evaluation in a National Early Years Excellence Centres Pilot Programme: Integrating Performance Management and Participatory Evaluation / Evaluative Site Visits: A Methodological Review / Robert K Yin -- Jessica Dart and Rick Davies -- Tineke A Abma and Robert E Stake -- Ernest R House and Kenneth R Howe -- Laura Nichols -- Beatrice Floc'hlay and Eric Plottu -- Danielle Papineau and Margaret C Kiely -- Mansoor A F Kazi -- Daniel J McLinden and William MK Trochim -- Jeff Hearn, John Lawler and George Dowswell -- Murray Saunders -- M F Smith -- Wolfgang Beywl and Philip Potter -- Roger B Straw and James M Herrell -- Blaine R Worthen and Constance C Schmitz -- Colin Biott and Tina Cook -- Frances Lawrenz, Nanette Keiser and Bethann Lavoie -- Volume Two: -- Part Two. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Section Four. Section Five. Explanatory and Economic Models -- Programme Theory and Logic Models -- Program Theory / Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work Theory-Driven Program Evaluation in the New Millennium / Logic Models / A Tool for Telling Your Programs Performance Story Implementing a Theory of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative / The Case of the Urban Health Initiative A Pattern-Matching Approach to Link Program Theory and Evaluation Data / Reconstructing Program Theories: Methods Available and Problems to be Solved / Experiments and Their Limits -- Reforms as Experiments / The False Choice between Theory-Based Evaluation and Experimentation / Methods for the Experimenting Society / The Randomised Trial / A Critique from the Philosophy of Science Should Evaluation be Freed from Its Causal Links? An Answer Illustrated by European Economic Development Policies / Economics and Costs -- Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field / Making Ends Meet Cost-Analysis Approaches in Evaluation and Decision Making / Policy Evaluation and the Concepts of Deadweight and Additionality / A Commentary The Limits of Cost Benefit Evaluation / Ethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / Strengthening Policies and Programmes -- Performance Management and Outcomes -- Evaluation Research and the Performance Management Movement / From Estrangement to Useful Integration?Outcomes and the Problem / Patricia J Rogers -- Stewart I Donaldson -- John A McLaughlin and Gretchen B Jordan -- Sharon Milligan et al -- Jules M Marquart -- Frans L Leeuw -- Donald T Campbell -- Thomas D Cook -- Donald T Campbell -- Lone Scocozza -- Jacques Toulemonde -- Tom A J Sefton -- Henry M Levin and Patrick J McEwan -- James J McEldowney -- Ernest R House -- Steven D Pinkerton et al -- Ann Bonar Blalock -- Lawrence B Mohr -- Volume Three: -- Part Three. Section One. Section Two. Section Three. Part Four. Section One. STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES (continued) -- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES (continued) -- Bridging the Macro and Micro Levels in Outcome Evaluation / Evaluation and the Social Construction of Impacts / Effectiveness in Health Promotion / Indicators and Evidence of Success Desk Screening of Development Projects / Is It Effective?Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement / Opportunities for Program Evaluators to Facilitate Performance-Based Management / CAPACITY AND UTILISATION Developing Systematic Internal Evaluation(Arnold J Love ) -- Improving the Quality of Internal Evaluation / The Evaluator as Consultant-Mediator Internal Evaluation / A Synthesis of Traditional Methods and Industrial Engineering Have We Learned Anything New about the Use of Evaluation? / The Evaluator's Responsibility for Utilization / Building Evaluation Capacity within Organisations / Evaluation Utilization as Argumentation / Policy, Evidence and Learning -- Evaluation for Decisions / Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?From Knowing to Doing / A Framework for Understanding the Evidence-Into-Practice Agenda Evidence-Based Policy / In Search of a Method Evidence-Based Policy / The Promise of 'Realist Synthesis'Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research / Towards an Evaluation of the Effects of Laws: Utilizing Time-Series Data of Complaints / Ingrid M E Munck -- Frans-Bauke van der Meer -- Keith Tones -- Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard -- Burt Perrin -- M A Scheirer and K Newcomer -- Rosalie T Torres -- Jonathan A Morell -- Carol H Weiss -- Michael Quinn Patton -- Richard C Sonnichsen -- Ville Valovirta -- Carol H Weiss -- Sandra Nutley, Isabel Walter and Huw T O Davies -- Ray Pawson -- Ray Pawson -- Paul A Sabatier -- Sidsel Sverdrup. Volume Four: -- Part Four. Section One. Section Two. Section Three.
"Evaluation is a set of research methods and associated methodologies with a distinctive purpose. They provide a means to judge actions and activities in terms of values, criteria and standards. At the same time evaluation is also a practice that seeks to enhance effectiveness in the public sphere and policy making. In order to improve as well as judge, there is a need to explain what happens and would have to be done differently for different outcomes to be achieved. It is in this explanatory mode that evaluation overlaps most directly with mainstream social science.; ; This collection offers a complete guide to evaluations research methods. It is organized in four volumes. ; ; Volume 1 focuses on foundation issues and includes sections on the rationale for evaluation, central methodological debates, the role of theory and applying values, criteria and standards. ; ; Volume 2 examines explaining through evaluation and covers sections on experimentation and causal inference, outcomes and inputs, socio-economic indicators, economics and cost benefit approaches and realist methods. ; ; Volume 3 addresses qualitative methods and includes sections on case studies, responsive, developmental and accompanying evaluation, participation and empowerment, constructivism and postmodernism and multi-criteria and classificatory methods. ; ; Volume 4 concentrates on evaluation to improve policy with sections on performance management, systematic reviews, institutionalization and utilization and policy learning and design. ; ; The collection offers a unique and unparalleled guide to this rapidly expanding research method. It demonstrates how method and theory are applied in policy and strategy and will be an invaluable addition to any social science library.; ; Elliot Stern is the editor of Evaluation: the International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, and works both as an independent consultant. He was previously Principal Advisor for evaluation studies at the Tavistock Institute, London."--Publisher description.
1412901529 9781412901529
2004116098
Evaluation research (Social action programs)--Methodology
H62 / .E8477 2005
300.723