Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text /

Part 1. 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 evaluation think...

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Main Author: Patton, Michael Quinn
Format: Livro Geral
Language:Português
Published: 1997
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Online Access:https://acervo.enap.gov.br/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=13127
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Summary: Part 1. 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 evaluation thinking and experiences Part 2. Focusing evaluations: choices, options, and decisions 6. Being active-reactive-adaptive: evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contigency thinking 7. Beyond the goals clarification game: focusing on outcomes 8. Focusing an evaluation: alternatives to goals-based evaluation 9. Implementation evaluation: what happened in the program? 10. The program's theory of action: conceptualizing causal linkages Part 3. Appropriate methods 11. Evaluations worth using:utilization-focused methods decisions 12. The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis 13. Deciphering data and reporting results: analysis, interpretations, judgements, and recommendations Part 4. Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation 14. Power, politics,and ethics 15. Utilization-focused evaluation: process and premises
ISBN:0803952651