Evaluation research methods / edited by Elliot Stern.
"Evaluation is a set of research methods and associated methodologies with a distinctive purpose. They provide a means to judge actions and activities in terms of values, criteria and standards. At the same time evaluation is also a practice that seeks to enhance effectiveness in the public sph...
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Foundations issues in evaluation
- v. 2. Evaluation practice for engagement
- v. 3. Explanatory and economic models
- v. 4. Strengthening policies and programmes
- Volume One:
- Part One. Foundations Issues in Evaluation
- Section One. Typologies and Paradigms
- The Logic of Evaluation and Evaluation Practice / Michael Scriven
- Evaluation as Sensemaking / George Julnes and Melvin M Mark
- Knowledge Construction in a Realist World Establishing Evaluative Conclusions / Deborah M Fournier
- A Distinction between General and Working Logic Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics / Thomas A Schwandt
- In with the New / Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley
- Introducing Scientific Realism A Theoretical Framework and Grid for Analysis of Programme-Evaluation Practices / Michel Demarteau
- Policy Evaluation and Learning / Peter van der Knaap
- Feedback, Enlightenment or Argumentation? Merit Criteria and Performance Standards / Evert Vedung
- Public Managers amidst Ambiguity: Towards a Typology of Evaluative Practices in Public Management / Tineke A Abma and Mirko Noordegraaf
- Section Two. Ethics and Values
- Evaluation as Advocacy / Jennifer C Greene
- How We Inhabit our Evaluations / Saville Kushner
- Research on Evaluation Ethics / Michael Morris
- What Have we Learned and Why Is It Important?Anything Goes / Clem Adelman
- Evaluation and Relativism The Limits of Constructivism in Evaluation / Saville Kushner
- The Future of Ethics in Evaluation: Developing the Dialogue / Dianna L Newman
- Section Three. Quantitative and Qualitative Debates
- Specifying Inquiry Modes / Melvin M Mark, Gary T Henry and George Julnes
- Philosophy of Science and the Quantitative-Qualitative Debates / William R Shadish
- Thirteen Common Errors The Foundations of Qualitative Research / Dawn Snape and Liz Spencer
- Volume Two:
- Part Two. Evaluation Practicefor Engagement
- Section One. Case Studies and Dialogical Methods
- The Abridged Version of Case Study Research / Robert K Yin
- Design and Method A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool / Jessica Dart and Rick Davies
- The Most Significant Change Technique Stake's Responsive Evaluation: Core Ideas and Evolution / Tineke A Abma and Robert E Stake
- Section Two. Participation and Empowerment
- Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice / Ernest R House and Kenneth R Howe
- Empowerment Evaluation - David M Fetterman Participatory Program Planning / Laura Nichols
- Including Program Participants and Evaluators Democratic Evaluation / Beatrice Floc'hlay and Eric Plottu
- From Empowerment Evaluation to Public Decision-Making Participatory Evaluation in a Community Organization: Fostering Stakeholder Empowerment and Utilization / Danielle Papineau and Margaret C Kiely
- Section Three. Combining Methods and Data
- Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs - Jennifer C Greene, Valerie J Caracelli and Wendy F Graham An Example of Qualitative Research Methods in Realist Evaluation / Mansoor A F Kazi
- From Puzzles to Problems / Daniel J McLinden and William MK Trochim
- Assessing the Value of Education in a Business Context with Concept Mapping and Pattern Matching Qualitative Evaluations, Combined Methods and Key Challenges: General Lessons from the Qualitative Evaluation of Community Intervention in Stroke Rehabilitation / Jeff Hearn, John Lawler and George Dowswell
- Section Four. Planning and Managing Evaluation
- Beginning an Evaluation with RUFDATA / Murray Saunders
- Theorizing a Practical Approach to Evaluation Planning Evaluability Assessment / M F Smith
- Reflections on the Process Method RENOMO - A Design Tool for Evaluations: Designing Evaluations Responsive to Stakeholders' Interests by Working with Nominal Groups using the Moderation / Wolfgang Beywl and Philip Potter
- Section Five. Multi-Site and Multi-Level Evaluation
- A Framework for Understanding and Improving Multisite Evaluations / Roger B Straw and James M Herrell
- Conceptual Challenges Confronting Cluster Evaluation / Blaine R Worthen and Constance C Schmitz
- Local Evaluation in a National Early Years Excellence Centres Pilot Programme: Integrating Performance Management and Participatory Evaluation / Colin Biott and Tina Cook
- Evaluative Site Visits: A Methodological Review / Frances Lawrenz, Nanette Keiser and Bethann Lavoie
- Volume Three:
- Part Three. Explanatory and Economic Models
- Section One. Programme Theory and Logic Models
- Program Theory / Patricia J Rogers
- Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work Theory-Driven Program Evaluation in the New Millennium / Stewart I Donaldson
- Logic Models / John A McLaughlin and Gretchen B Jordan
- A Tool for Telling Your Programs Performance Story Implementing a Theory of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative / Sharon Milligan et al
- The Case of the Urban Health Initiative A Pattern-Matching Approach to Link Program Theory and Evaluation Data / Jules M Marquart
- Reconstructing Program Theories: Methods Available and Problems to be Solved / Frans L Leeuw
- Section Two. Experiments and Their Limits
- Reforms as Experiments / Donald T Campbell
- The False Choice between Theory-Based Evaluation and Experimentation / Thomas D Cook
- Methods for the Experimenting Society / Donald T Campbell
- The Randomised Trial / Lone Scocozza
- A Critique from the Philosophy of Science Should Evaluation be Freed from Its Causal Links? An Answer Illustrated by European Economic Development Policies / Jacques Toulemonde
- Section Three. Economics and Costs
- Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field / Tom A J Sefton
- Making Ends Meet Cost-Analysis Approaches in Evaluation and Decision Making / Henry M Levin and Patrick J McEwan
- Policy Evaluation and the Concepts of Deadweight and Additionality / James J McEldowney
- A Commentary The Limits of Cost Benefit Evaluation / Ernest R House
- Ethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / Steven D Pinkerton et al
- Part Four. Strengthening Policies and Programmes
- Section One. Performance Management and Outcomes
- Evaluation Research and the Performance Management Movement / Ann Bonar Blalock
- From Estrangement to Useful Integration?Outcomes and the Problem / Lawrence B Mohr
- Volume Four:
- Part Four. STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES (continued)
- Section One. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES (continued)
- Bridging the Macro and Micro Levels in Outcome Evaluation / Ingrid M E Munck
- Evaluation and the Social Construction of Impacts / Frans-Bauke van der Meer
- Effectiveness in Health Promotion / Keith Tones
- Indicators and Evidence of Success Desk Screening of Development Projects / Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard
- Is It Effective?Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement / Burt Perrin
- Opportunities for Program Evaluators to Facilitate Performance-Based Management / M A Scheirer and K Newcomer
- Section Two. CAPACITY AND UTILISATION Developing Systematic Internal Evaluation(Arnold J Love )
- Improving the Quality of Internal Evaluation / Rosalie T Torres
- The Evaluator as Consultant-Mediator Internal Evaluation / Jonathan A Morell
- A Synthesis of Traditional Methods and Industrial Engineering Have We Learned Anything New about the Use of Evaluation? / Carol H Weiss
- The Evaluator's Responsibility for Utilization / Michael Quinn Patton
- Building Evaluation Capacity within Organisations / Richard C Sonnichsen
- Evaluation Utilization as Argumentation / Ville Valovirta
- Section Three. Policy, Evidence and Learning
- Evaluation for Decisions / Carol H Weiss
- Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?From Knowing to Doing / Sandra Nutley, Isabel Walter and Huw T O Davies
- A Framework for Understanding the Evidence-Into-Practice Agenda Evidence-Based Policy / Ray Pawson
- In Search of a Method Evidence-Based Policy / Ray Pawson
- The Promise of 'Realist Synthesis'Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research / Paul A Sabatier
- Towards an Evaluation of the Effects of Laws: Utilizing Time-Series Data of Complaints / Sidsel Sverdrup.