Huey T. Chen

Practical Program Evaluation

Assessing and Improving Planning, Implementation, and Effectiveness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Practical Program Evaluation: Assessing and Improving Planning, Implementation, and Effectiveness introduces students to the real world of evaluation, focusing on issues that arise in professional practice. Author Huey T. Chen concentrates on the steps vital to program evaluation: systematically identifying stakeholder needs, selecting evaluation options best suited to particular needs and reconciling any necessary tradeoffs, and turning the decisions into action. Using illustrative examples from the field, the book details the methods and procedures involved in analyzing and identifying stakeholder expectations and selecting an evaluation strategy. The principles and strategies presented are reinforced with theoretical justification. This provides students and professional evaluators the knowledge and flexibility to design suitable evaluations and follow them through from start to finish.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780761902324
• ISBN-10: 0761902325
• Artikelnr.: 21462610

Autorenporträt

Huey T. Chen has been a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2002. He was born and raised in Taiwan. Dr. Chen worked at the University of Akron until 1997, when he joined the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the chief of an evaluation branch. Dr. Chen had taken a leadership role in designing and implementing a national evaluation system for assessing the CDC funded HIV prevention programs, which are based in health departments and community organizations. Dr. Chen has contributed to the development of evaluation theory and methodology, especially in the areas of program theory and theory-driven evaluations. His book, Theory-Driven Evaluations, has been recognized as one of the landmarks in program evaluation. In 1998 he received the Senior Biomedical Research Service Award from the CDC. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for contributions to Evaluation Theory from the American Evaluation Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Overview of the Book Part I: Introduction 1. Fundamentals for
Practicing Program Evaluation 2. A Conceptual Framework of Program Theory
for Practitioners 3. A Practical Evaluation Taxonomy: Selecting the
Evaluation Approach That Works Part II: Program Evaluation to Help
Stakeholders Plan Intervention Programs 4. Assisting Stakeholders as They
Formulate Program Rationales 5. How Evaluators Assist Stakeholders in
Developing Program Plans Part III: Evaluating Implementation 6.
Development-Oriented Evaluation Tailored for the Initial Implementation 7.
Assessing Implementation in the Mature Implementation Stage Part IV:
Program Monitoring and Outcome Evaluation 8. Monitoring the Progress of a
Program 9. Evaluating Outcomes: Efficacy Evaluation and Effectiveness
Evaluation 10. Theory-Driven Outcome Evaluation 11. Looking Forward
References Index About the Author