Gail V. Barrington, Beverly F. Triana-Tremain

Evaluation Time

A Practical Guide for Evaluation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an accessible, contemporary, and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation. Authors Gail Vallance Barrington and Beverly Triana-Tremain integrate new approaches and concerns, and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies. They show how evaluators measure whether the planned and implemented interventions or services are achieving their goals and objectives, while focusing on the questions most important to the community and organizations in which the evaluation takes place. The book stresses the role of critical and evaluative thinking, as well as self-reflection, and demonstrates the importance of context and equity in today s turbulent environment, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 205mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1837g
• ISBN-13: 9781544339504
• ISBN-10: 154433950X
• Artikelnr.: 63482672

Autorenporträt

Gail Vallance Barrington is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and a certified teacher. During her 35 years as owner and manager of an independent consulting company, she completed over 130 evaluation studies, mainly in education, health, and research. She has authored articles, book chapters, and the popular book, Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE, 2012). She has served on the boards of both the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Awards include the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award (2008) and the AEA Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice (2016). She is a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2018) and the Certified Management Consultants of Canada (2014). She holds degrees from McGill University (BA), Carleton University (MA) and the University of Alberta (PhD in Educational Administration). She teaches research and evaluation skills online for Michigan State University and the University of Alberta. For more information see www.barringtonresearchgrp.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Fundamentals of Evaluation
Chapter 1 The Scope of Evaluation
Chapter 2 How Evaluators Think
Chapter 3 Program Logic
Part 2 Evaluation and the Program Life Cycle
Chapter 4 Pre- and Early Program Evaluation
Chapter 5 Mid-Cycle Program Evaluation
Chapter 6 End of Cycle Program Evaluation
Part 3 Evaluation Methods
Chapter 7 Using Quantitative Methods in Evaluation
Chapter 8 Using Qualitative Methods in Evaluation
Chapter 9 Using Mixed Methods in Evaluation
Part 4 Communicating about Evaluation
Chapter 10 The Evaluation Plan
Chapter 11 Communication, Reporting, and Use
Chapter 12 Evaluation Context and the Evaluator's New Stance

Rezensionen

The text is contemporary, comprehensive, and approachable, soundly encompassing disciplinary basics along with more nuanced and emergent perspectives of a rapidly maturing discipline. Respecting diverse audiences, this text effectively promotes evaluator social and cultural understanding and engagement. Accordingly, this text should have a leading role in preparing a new, more sophisticated generation of emergent professionals, scholars, and students on their evaluation journeys. Gary Skolits