Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth

A Guide to Program Evaluation with Stakeholders and Communities

Lori L. Bakken (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-088537-3 (ISBN)

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This book uniquely captures program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies that are most useful to nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students as they engage in evaluation practice. Readers will learn how to work with key stakeholders to determine answerable questions/design studies and analyze, interpret, and report useful findings.

Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answer those questions, and analyzing, interpreting, and reporting the evaluation's findings so they are useful and meaningful for key stakeholders. The text concludes
with a chapter devoted to the shifting landscape of evaluation practice as it faces complex systems and issues that are shaped by society. Additionally, the author provides a list of knowledge and skills needed to adapt to a changing landscape and encourages organizations to use evaluation as a mechanism for
learning and adapting to change. Her orientation toward community-based approaches and social justice prevail throughout the book's content and align well with a reader's desire to be inclusive and accountable in programing efforts. Nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students will find this book helpful for understanding basic program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies.

Lori L. Bakken, PhD, MS, is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an Evaluation Specialist for the University of Wisconsin Extension, Cooperative Extension. She has over 25 years of experience as an evaluator, educator and researcher.

PART ONE: Prepare
Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Evaluator
Chapter 2: Acquiring Requisite Knowledge & Skills
Chapter 3: Choosing an Evaluation Approach
Chapter 4: Planning a Program Evaluation

PART TWO: Design
Chapter 5: Designing a Program Evaluation
Chapter 6: Choosing Samples, Sampling Methods, and Data Sources

PART THREE: Conduct
Chapter 7: Collecting, Storing, and Tracking Information
Chapter 8: Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data
Chapter 9: Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data

PART FOUR: Report and Prepare Again
Chapter 10: Reporting and Disseminating Findings
Chapter 11: Preparing for Complexity in Evaluation

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 233 mm
Gewicht	412 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10	0-19-088537-8 / 0190885378
ISBN-13	978-0-19-088537-3 / 9780190885373
Zustand	Neuware