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Utilization-focused evaluation / Michael Quinn Patton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xx, 667 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 141295861X
  • 9781412958615
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.61068 22
LOC classification:
  • H62.5.U5 P37 2008
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 -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 361.61068 PAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A446354B
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-625) and index.

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 -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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