Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Name: Utilization-Focused Evaluation
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ISBN: 9781412958615

ISBN-10: 141295861X

ISBN-13: 9781412958615

Edition: 4th 2008

Authors: Michael Quinn Patton

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Both practical and theoretical, the Fourth Edition of the bestselling Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text shows how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. This entirely rewritten edition offers readers a full-fledged evaluation text from identifying primary users of an evaluation to focusing the evaluation, making methods decisions, analyzing data, and presenting findings. Each chapter reviews the relevant literature and actual case examples to illustrate major points. Author Michael Quinn Patton also offers a definite point of view developed from observing much of what has passed for program evaluation that has not been very…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 7.06" wide x 10.00" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 3.410
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 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