TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton,Michael Quinn
TI  - Utilization-focused evaluation
SN  - 141295861X
AV  - H62.5.U5 P37 2008
U1  - 361.61068 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Evaluation research (Social action programs)
KW  - United States
N1  - 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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