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Bog, 3. ed., 1997
Bog, 2. ed., 7. print, 1990
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Summary: In the Fourth Edition of the best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, leading evaluation expert Michael Quinn Patton shows readers how to conduct program evaluations - from beginning to end - that will yield useful results. Using a lively writing style, Patton offers readers a clear and comprehensive understanding of how to improve program evaluation. He includes tips ranging from how to identify primary users of an evaluation to how to present one?s findings. Patton imbues the book with a definite point of view developed from observing much of what has passed for program evaluation that has not been very useful. Key features of the fourth edition: Provides thoroughly updated materials, including more international content; new references; new exhibits and sidebars; and new examples, stories, and cartoons; Includes follow-up exercises at the end of each chapter; Features a utilization-focused evaluation checklist; Gives a greater emphasis on mixed methods; Analyzes the pluses and minuses of the increased emphasis on accountability and performance measurements in government at all levels; Details the explosion of international evaluation.
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Seneste udgave, bogPART I. 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 Evaluative Thinking and Experiences). - PART II. FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS, AND DECISIONS (6. Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive ; 7. Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game ; 8. Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives ; 9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program? ; 10. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change). - PART III. APPROPRIATE METHODS (11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions ; 12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis ; 13. The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations). - PART IV. REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION (14. Power, Politics, and Ethics ; 15. Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises)
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