Utilization-Focused Evaluation The New Century Text

Name: Utilization-Focused Evaluation The New Century Text
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ISBN: 9780803952652

ISBN-10: 0803952651

ISBN-13: 9780803952652

Edition: 3rd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Quinn Patton

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Both practical and theoretical, this edition tells how and why to conduct program evaluations. Each chapter contains actual case examples to illustrate major points as well as a review of the relevant literature.

Book details

List price: $77.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English




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 Evaluation Thinking and Experiences



Focusing Evaluations: Choices, Options and Decisions


Being Active-Reactive-Adaptive


Evaluator Roles, Situational Responsiveness and Strategic Contingency Thinking


Beyond the Goals Clarification Game


Focusing on Outcomes


Focusing an Evaluation


Alternatives to Goals-Based Evaluation


Implementation Evaluation


What Happened in the Program?


The Program's Theory of Action


Conceptualizing Casual Linkages



Appropriate Methods


Evaluations Worth Using


Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions


The Paradigms Debate and a Utilitarian Synthesis


Deciphering Data and Reporting Results


Analysis, Interpretations, Judgments and Recommendations



Realities and Practicalities of Utilization-Focused Evaluation


Power, Politics and Ethics


Utilization-Focused Evaluation


Process and Premises