Building Evaluation Capacity

Activities for Teaching and Training

Hallie Preskill, Darlene F. Russ-Eft

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781483334325
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483355009
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Second Edition of Building Evaluation Capacity provides 89 highly structured activities which require minimal instructor preparation and encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Ideal for use in program evaluation courses, professional development workshops, and organization stakeholder trainings, the activities cover the entire process of evaluation, including: understanding what evaluation is; the politics and ethics; the influence of culture; various models, approaches and designs; data collection and analysis methods; communicating and reporting progress and findings; and building and sustaining support. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, minimum and maximum number of participants, range of time required, materials needed, primary instructional method, and procedures for facilitators to help learners in the most common evaluation practices.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Matrix of Activities
• Glossary of Instructional Methods
• Strategies for Forming Small Groups
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1 Overview of Evaluation
• Chapter 2 The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation Practice
• Chapter 3 Culture and Evaluation
• Chapter 4 Focusing the Evaluation
• Chapter 5 Evaluation Models, Approaches, and Designs
• Chapter 6 Issues of Validity and Sampling
• Chapter 7 Collecting Evaluation Data
• Chapter 8 Analyzing Evaluation Data
• Chapter 9 Communicating and Reporting Evaluation Processes and Findings
• Chapter 10 Managing the Evaluation
• Chapter 11 Building and Sustaining Support for Evaluation
• Chapter 12 Reflections on Learning
• Index