Evaluability Assessment

Improving Evaluation Quality and Use

Michael S. Trevisan, Tamara M. Walser

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781452282442
• eBook ISBN: 9781483354927
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Evaluability assessment (EA) can lead to development of sound program theory, increased stakeholder involvement and empowerment, better understanding of program culture and context, enhanced collaboration and communication, process and findings use, and organizational learning and evaluation capacity building. This book provides an up-to-date treatment of EA, clarifies what it actually is and how it can be used, demonstrates EA as an approach to evaluative inquiry with multidisciplinary and global appeal, and identifies and describes the purposes and benefits to using EA. Using case examples contributed by EA practitioners, the text illustrates important features of EA use, and showcases how EA is used in a variety of disciplines and evaluation contexts. This text is appropriate as an instructional text for graduate level evaluation courses and training, and as a resource for evaluation practitioners, policymakers, funding agencies, and professional training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Table of Case Examples
• Preface
• About the Authors
• 1 The Evaluability Assessment Story
• 2 Evaluability Assessment and Program Evaluation
• 3 Introducing Our Evaluability Assessment Model
• 4 Focusing The Evaluability Assessment
• 5 Developing an Initial Program Theory
• 6 Gathering Feedback on Program Theory
• 7 Using The Evaluability Assessment
• 8 Additional Considerations
• References
• Index
• Publisher Note