Research on Evaluation

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• This issue broaden the field s understanding of Research on Evaluation (RoE) in practice, with a focus on empirical RoE. Lees meer

Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice

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• This issue explores the many issues in understanding managing evaluation: an omnipresent, if often invisible process guiding evaluation studies, evalu... Lees meer

Needs Assessment: Trends and a View Toward the Future

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• Explore multiple practical and theoretical dimensions of needs assessment. Lees meer

Program Evaluation in a Complex Organizational System: Lessons from Cooperative Extension

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• This issue of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on evaluation in complex organizations. Lees meer

Outcomes of Welfare Reform for Families Who Leave TANF

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• Contributes to the welfare policy debate by reporting on a multisite project examining families who leave welfare. This issue aims to use the planned ... Lees meer

Evaluating Student Learning in Higher Education: Beyond the Public Rhetoric

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• Evaluation has played a fundamental role throughout the history of higher education. It has been key to institutional missions and for accountability ... Lees meer

Feminist Evaluation: Explorations and Experiences

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• Emphasizes bringing to light the ways that pervasive gender inequality can distort program design, implementation and outcome. This volume provides bo... Lees meer

Environmental Program and Policy Evaluation: Addressing Methodological Challenges

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• Although environmental policy and program evaluation emerged rather late compared to many other areas of public policy, an energetic evaluation commun... Lees meer

Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation

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• Gain a greater understanding of organizational capacity to do and use evaluation and implications for evaluation capacity building (ECB). This volume ... Lees meer

Enhancing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Through Evaluation

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• The first priniciple of humanitarian assistance is "do no harm. " The second might be, "do better!" Enter the evaluation of emergency and disaster man... Lees meer

Pitfalls and Pratfalls: Null and Negative Findings in Evaluating Interventions

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• This volume examines the problem of null or negative evaluation findings, a topic rarely discussed in the literature but all too commonplace in the ex... Lees meer

Evaluation as a Democratic Process: Promoting Inclusion, Dialogue, and Deliberation

EV (Evaluation)

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• Shows how to use different types of dialog to make evaluation more participatory. This book examines an evaluation program in a psychiatric institutio... Lees meer

Teaching Evaluation Using the Case Method

EV (Evaluation)

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• Presents evaluation cases developed specifically for use with the case method. Lees meer

Evaluation Voices from Latin America

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• Hear from evaluation practitioners throughout Latin America. In this region program evaluation is an emergent practice, one that is shaped by distinct... Lees meer

The Systematic Screening and Assessment Method

EV (Evaluation)

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• The rationale, application, and outcomes of the Systemic Screening and Assessment (SSA) Method, an innovative combination of existing evaluation metho... Lees meer

Conducting Multiple Site Evaluations in Real-World Settings

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• In the past decade, interest in multisite evaluation has grown, but there is still not a substantial literature on the issues involved in conducting e... Lees meer

Evaluation Models

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• The author of this issue identifies, analyzes and judges twenty-two evaluation approaches thought to cover most program evaluation efforts, providing ... Lees meer

Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation

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• This issue explores the potential role of Appreciative Inquiry, a process that searches for what is best in people and organizations, in evaluation. Lees meer

Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice

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• This issue of New Directions for Evaluation addresses the topic of evaluation policy, especially how it is informed by and affects evaluation practice... Lees meer

Seven North American Evaluation Pioneers

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• How do people evaluate in daily life? This issue broaches this topic to better understand this dimension of being human, to develop evaluation theory,... Lees meer

Youth Participatory Evaluation: A Field in the Making

Savitz Andrew

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• Youth participatory evaluation (YPE) combines action research and participatory evaluation's commitment to stakeholder empowerment with the philosophy... Lees meer

Co-Constructing a Contextually Responsive Evaluation Framework: The Talent Development Model of Reform

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• Presents the Talent Development evaluation framework, an approach for evaluating urban school reform interventions embedded in the work of the Howard ... Lees meer

Critical Social Theory and Evaluation Practice

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• As a practice meant to improve society, evaluation is implicated in discussions about which societal and cultural values and principles of justice wil... Lees meer