Anastasia Catsambas (Tessie) Tzavaras, E. Jane Davidson

Evaluation Management

How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations That Matter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Evaluation Management: How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter helps evaluation teams and commissioners achieve results that meet utilization and organizational learning goals and inform positive change for programs and communities. Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas and E. Jane Davidson provide insights on both the tactical and strategic levels of evaluation management, using approaches and skills from project management, administration and logistics, budgeting, team management, leadership development, communication, coaching, systems thinking, and negotiation. They also demonstrate how intentionality for equity, sustainability and culturally responsive practices is essential for ensuring an evaluation s relevance and enhancing productive stakeholder engagement. With plenty of practical guidance from many years of experience, the authors provide a valuable resource for student readers, experienced evaluators, and commissioners of evaluation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 253mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781544353128
• ISBN-10: 154435312X
• Artikelnr.: 69186884

Autorenporträt

Anastasia (Tessie) Tzavaras Catsambas is the founder and CEO/CFO of EnCompass LLC, an organization of 250 staff that provides services in evaluation, learning, leadership, and organizational development. Ms. Catsambas brings 30 years' experience in planning, evaluation, and organizational development. She has managed large-scale, international evaluations, delivered training in different aspects of evaluation, and advocated for evaluation at global level. She is an instructor for the EnCompass Learning Center teaching appreciative evaluation, evaluation management, and gender transformative evaluation. Ms. Catsambas is an innovator and practitioner in appreciative evaluation, a methodology that incorporates the systematic study of successful experiences in evaluation, and has co-authored a book entitled, Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry (Sage 2006). Ms. Catsambas is a Past-President of the American Evaluation Association. She was a founding member of the EvalPartners Coalition, a global initiative to promote the use of evaluation to inform policy and program decisions and received the 2015 EvalPartners Award in recognition of her contributions. Ms. Catsambas holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from the College of Wooster in Ohio and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. She has trained with the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming in Total Quality Management. She is fluent in French and Greek and speaks Spanish.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Overview Of Evaluation Management
Chapter 2. Commissioning Great Evaluations
Chapter 3. Pre-Start Up: Analyzing the Evaluation Requirements
Chapter 4. Managing The Evaluation Contract Start-Up
Chapter 5. Managing The Evaluation Team
Chapter 6. Managing Data Collection
Chapter 7. Managing Data Analysis
Chapter 8. Managing Evaluation Reporting
Chapter 9: Managing Evaluation Use and Influence
Chapter 10. Building Evaluation Management Capacity for Evaluation Commissioners
References
Index

Rezensionen

Evaluation quality and use depend on evaluation management. That makes this book essential for all evaluation professionals and commissioners of evaluations. Michael Quinn Patton