Patton, Michael Quinn <br/><br/>
Utilization-focused evaluation / 
Michael Quinn Patton. 
 - Fourth edition. 
 - xx, 667 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-625) and index. 
<br/><br/> Toward More Useful Evaluations --  Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate --  What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started? --  Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor --  Intended Uses of Findings --  Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences --  Focusing Evaluations: Choices, Options, and Decisions --  Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive --  Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game --  Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives --  Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program? --  Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change --  Appropriate Methods --  Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions --  The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis --  The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations --  Realities and Practicalities of Utilization-Focused Evaluation --  Power, Politics, and Ethics --  Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises --  Author Index --  Subject Index.  Part I.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  Part II.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  Part III.  11.  12.  13.  Part IV.  14.  15. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>141295861X 9781412958615 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007052936 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evaluation research (Social action programs)--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H62.5.U5  / P37 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.61068