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Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text
- Title
- Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text / Michael Quinn Patton.
- Author
- Patton, Michael Quinn.
- Publication
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 431 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Evaluation research (Social action programs) > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-413) and index.
- Contents
- 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 evaluation, thinking and experiences -- Focusing evaluations : choices, options and decisions. Being active-reactive-adaptive : evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contingency thinking -- Beyond the goals, clarification game : focusing on outcomes -- Focusing an evaluation : alternatives to goals-based evaluation -- Implementation evaluation : What happened in the program? -- The program's theory of action : conceptualizing causal linkages -- Appropriate methods. Evaluations worth using : utilization-focused methods decisions -- The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis -- Deciphering data and reporting results : analysis, interpretations, judgments, and recommendations -- Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation. Power, politics, and ethics -- Utilization-focused evaluation : process and premises.
- Call Number
- JFF 98-632
- ISBN
- 0803952651 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0803952643 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 96025310
- OCLC
- 34990051
- Author
- Patton, Michael Quinn.
- Title
- Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text / Michael Quinn Patton.
- Imprint
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-413) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 98-632