Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
eBook - ePub

Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

About this book

Based on Michael Quinn Patton?s best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts. The book integrates theory and practice, is based on both research and professional experience, and offers new case examples and cartoons with Patton?s signature humor.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Detailed Contents
  7. Preface
  8. About the Author
  9. Introduction, Overview, and Context: Utilization-Focused Reality Testing: Finding Out if what is Hoped for Actually Happens
  10. 1 Assess and Build Program and Organizational Readiness for Utilizationā€“Focused Evaluation
  11. 2 Assess and Enhance Evaluator Readiness and Competence to Undertake a Utilizationā€“Focused Evaluation
  12. 3 Identify, Organize, and Engage Primary Intended Users: The Personal Factor
  13. 4 Situation Analysis Conducted Jointly with Primary Intended Users
  14. 5 Identify and Prioritize Primary Intended Uses by Determining Priority Purposes
  15. 6 Consider and Build in Process Uses if and as Appropriate
  16. 7 Focus Priority Evaluation Questions
  17. 8 Check that Fundamental Areas for Evaluation Inquiry are Being Adequately Addressed: Implementation, Outcomes, and Attribution Questions
  18. 9 Determine What Intervention Model or Theory of Change Is Being Evaluated
  19. 10 Negotiate Appropriate Methods to Generate Credible Findings that Support Intended Use by Intended Users
  20. 11 Make Sure Intended Users Understand Potential Methods Controversies and Their Implications
  21. 12 Simulate Use of Findings: Evaluation's Equivalent of a Dress Rehearsal
  22. 13 Gather Data with Ongoing Attention to Use
  23. 14 Organize and Present the Data for Interpretation and Use by Primary Intended Users: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
  24. 15 Prepare an Evaluation Report to Facilitate Use and Disseminate Significant Findings to Expand Influence
  25. 16 Follow up with Primary Intended Users to Facilitate and Enhance Use
  26. 17 Metaevaluation of Use: Be Accountable, Learn, and Improve
  27. Summary and Conclusion
  28. References
  29. Author Index
  30. Index