Evaluation for the 21st Century

A Handbook

Eleanor Chelimsky, William R. Shadish, Eleanor Chelimsky, William R. Shadish

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN: 9780761906117
• eBook ISBN: 9781452249131
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Investigación y metodología de las ciencias sociales

What methodological tools have been most useful in doing evaluation? What are some of the new methodologies that are being used and developed? Will the types of things evaluated expand from programs, personnel, and products to foreign aid, medical technology, environmental interventions, and World Bank loan programs? What will evaluation be like in the 21st century? These impressive evaluators from around the globe explore how evaluation has come to be what it is today and what the professional evaluation landscape will be like in the future. They examine the following:

-What makes evaluation different from other disciplines?

-The links and differences between evaluation and auditing professions?

-Which activities have priority in evaluation, under what circumstances, and for what purposes?

-New methodological approaches to doing evaluation.

-The issues of advocacy versus truth in evaluation and between evaluating programs versus empowering people to evaluate their own programs.

Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators? chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.

A stunning achievement, Evaluation for the 21st Century is for all professionals and practitioners in evaluation, management, public administration, sociology, psychology, education research, public health, and nursing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - The Coming Transformations in Evaluation
• Part I - Evaluation—Yesterday and Today
• Chapter 2 - Lessons Learned in Evaluation over the Past 25 Years
• Chapter 3 - The Political Environment of Evaluation and What It Means for the Development of the Field
• Part II - A Uditing and Evaluation
• Chapter 4 - Evaluation as an Essential Component of "Value-for-Money"
• Chapter 5 - Auditing and Evaluation in Sweden
• Chapter 6 - Performance Auditing: Travelers' Tales
• Chapter 7 - Evaluation and Auditing in State Legislatures: Meeting the Client's Needs
• Part III - Performance Measurement and Evaluation
• Chapter 8 - Trends in Performance Measurement: Challenges for Evaluators
• Chapter 9 - Performance Measurement in the United Kingdom (1985-1995)
• Part IV - International Evaluation
• Chapter 10 - Evaluating Global Issues in a Community Setting
• Chapter 11 - The Development of Evaluation in the People's Republic of China
• Chapter 12 - Critical Comments on Evaluation Research in Denmark
• Chapter 13 - Evaluation, Markets, and Institutions in the Reform Agenda of Developing Countries
• Chapter 14 - Evaluation in the World Bank: Antecedents, Instruments, and Concepts
• Part V - New Topics for Evaluation
• Chapter 15 - Evaluating Human Rights Violations
• Chapter 16 - Lessons of Immigration Policy and the Role of Research
• Chapter 17 - Tracing Gender Issues through Institutional Change and Program Implementation at the World Bank
• Chapter 18 - Understanding the Impact of Development Projects on Women: The Tunisia Institutional Development Fund Project
• Chapter 19 - The Analysis and Evaluation of Foreign Aid
• Chapter 20 - Evaluating the U.S. Nuclear Triad
• Chapter 21 - Evaluation, Nuclear Power Plant Remediation and Redesign, and Russian Policy Making after Chernobyl
• Chapter 22 - The Independent Evaluation of the Global Environment Facility Pilot Phase
• Chapter 23 - Environmental Changes and Their Measurement: What Data Should We Collect and What CollaborativeSystems do We Need for Linking Knowledge to Action?
• Part VI - A Sampler of the Current Methodological Tool Kit
• Chapter 24 - Multimethod Evaluations: Using Case Studies Together with Other Methods
• Chapter 25 - Cross-Design Synthesis: Concept and Application
• Chapter 26 - Research Synthesis for Public Health Policy: Experience of the Institute of Medicine
• Chapter 27 - Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education
• Chapter 28 - Cluster Evaluation
• Chapter 29 - An Introduction to Scientific Realist Evaluation
• Chapter 30 - Single-Case Evaluation in British Social Services
• Chapter 31 - Twenty-One Years Old and Counting: The Interrupted Time Series Comes of Age
• Part VII - An Enduring Argument about the Purpose of Evaluation
• Chapter 32 - Advocacy in Evaluation: A Necessary Evil?
• Chapter 33 - Truth and Objectivity in Evaluation
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors