Evaluation practice for collaborative growth: a guide to program evaluation with stakeholders and communities

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This book uniquely captures program evaluation concepts, methods, and strategies that are most useful to nonprofit leaders, social science professionals, and students as they engage in evaluation practice. Readers will learn how to work with key stakeholders to determine answerable questions/design studies and analyze, interpret, and report useful findings.

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Full title :Evaluation practice for collaborative growth : a guide to program evaluation with stakeholders and communities / by Lori L. Bakken.

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Publication Date:2018

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780190885380, 0190885386
oclc:on1019843536
LC Classification:H62
Dewey Decimal:658.4/013

Cover; Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Part One: Prepare; 1. Thinking Like an Evaluator; Purchasing a Car: An Example of Evaluation in Everyday Life; Major Components of an Evaluation Process; Program Planning and Evaluation; Summary; References; 2. Acquiring Requisite Knowledge and Skills; Roles of Evaluators; Evaluation Standards; Ethics and Human Subjects Protections; Evaluation Competencies; Communication and Negotiation; Building Partnerships and Capacity for Evaluation.

Effective Partnerships and CollaborationsInclusive Practice in Evaluation; Summary; References; 3. Choosing an Evaluation Approach; Philosophical Perspectives that Influence Evaluation; Expertise-oriented Approaches; Consumer-oriented Approaches; Program-oriented Approaches; Decision-oriented Approaches; Participant-oriented Approaches; Systems Approaches; Approaches and the Evaluation Tree; Matching Approaches with Evaluation Questions; Examples of Integrated Approaches to Evaluation; Summary; References; 4. Planning a Program Evaluation; Understanding the Evaluation's Context

Identifying and Engaging StakeholdersA Program…

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