Interactive Evaluation Practice

Mastering the Interpersonal Dynamics of Program Evaluation

Jean A. King, Laurie Stevahn

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780761926733
• eBook ISBN: 9781483313733
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

You?re about to start your first evaluation project. Where do you begin? Or you?re a practicing evaluator faced with a challenging situation. How do you proceed? How do you handle the interactive components and processes inherent in evaluation practice?

Use Interactive Evaluation Practice to bridge the gap between the theory of evaluation and its practice. Taking an applied approach, this book provides readers with specific interactive skills needed in different evaluation settings and contexts. The authors illustrate multiple options for developing skills and choosing strategies, systematically highlighting the evaluator?s three roles as decision maker, actor, and reflective practitioner. Case studies and interactive examples stimulate thinking about how to apply interactive skills across a variety of evaluation situations.

"From beginning to end, this book is an indispensable resource for those responsible for the evaluation process. In essence, here?s a chance to learn from masters about acquiring mastery. What could be more useful?" Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

 

"At long last, a book that explicitly addresses the importance of interpersonal dynamics in evaluation practice!" Hallie Preskill, Executive Director, Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center, FSG

 

"As an evaluator who frequently interacts with a variety of stakeholders and who provides graduate-level evaluation training, I find Interactive Evaluation Practice to be an exceptional addition to the evaluation literature and a useful guide to interacting with various stakeholder groups." Chris L. S. Coryn, Western Michigan University

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE EVALUATION PRACTICE
• PART II. SKILLS AND STRATEGIES FOR INTERACTIVE EVALUATION PRACTICE
• PART III. TEACHING CASES FOR BRINGING INTERACTIVE EVALUATION PRACTICE TO LIFE
• Epilogue: The End—and a Beginning
• Glossary
• Appendix A. The Program Evaluation Standards: A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users (3rd Edition)
• Appendix B. American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles for Evaluators
• Appendix C. Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators
• Appendix D. Interactive Evaluation Practice Principles Chapter Crosswalk
• Appendix E. Generic Exercises for Reflecting on Interactive Evaluation Practice Case Studies
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index