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About this book
"This is the evaluation book we?ve been waiting for! A must-read for all learning and working in the field."Ā
āAmanda M. Olejarski, West Chester University
Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned is a candid collection of stories from seasoned evaluators from a variety of sectors sharing professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward. As the only book of its kind, editor Kylie Hutchinson has collected a series of engaging, real-life examples that are both entertaining and informative. Each story offers universal lessons as takeaways, and discussion questions for reflective practice. The book is the perfect companion to anyone working in the evaluation field, and to instructors of program evaluation courses who want to bring the real world into their classroom.
āAmanda M. Olejarski, West Chester University
Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned is a candid collection of stories from seasoned evaluators from a variety of sectors sharing professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward. As the only book of its kind, editor Kylie Hutchinson has collected a series of engaging, real-life examples that are both entertaining and informative. Each story offers universal lessons as takeaways, and discussion questions for reflective practice. The book is the perfect companion to anyone working in the evaluation field, and to instructors of program evaluation courses who want to bring the real world into their classroom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword No Success Like Failure
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Manage The Evaluation
- 1 Itās Not Me, Itās You The Value of Addressing Conflict Head On
- 2 The Scope Creep Train Wreck How Responsive Evaluation Can Go Off the Rails
- 3 The Buffalo Jump Lessons After the Fall
- 4 Evaluator Self-Evaluation When Self-Flagellation Is Not Enough
- Part II Engage Stakeholders
- 5 That Alien Feeling Engaging All Stakeholders in the Universe
- 6 Seeds of Failure How the Evaluation of a West African Agricultural Scale Up Project Went Awry
- 7 I Didnāt Know I Would Be a Tightrope Walker Someday Balancing Evaluator Responsiveness and Independence
- 8 When National Pride Is Beyond Facts Navigating Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements
- Part III Build Evaluation Capacity
- 9 Stars in Our Eyes What Happens When Things Are Too Good to Be True
- Part IV Describe The Program
- 10 A āFailedā Logic Model How I Learned to Connect With All Stakeholders
- 11 Lost Without You A Lesson in System Mapping and Engaging Stakeholders
- Part V Focus The Evaluation Design
- 12 You Got to Know When to Hold āEm An Evaluation That Went From Bad to Worse
- 13 The Evaluation From Hell When Evaluators and Clients Donāt Quite Fit
- Part VI Gather Credible Evidence
- 14 The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Evaluators Dealing With Data Collection Surprises in the Field
- 15 Are You My Amigo, or My Chero? The Importance of Cultural Competence in Data Collection and Evaluation
- 16 OMG, Why Canāt We Get the Data? A Lesson in Managing Evaluation Expectations
- 17 No, Actually, This Project Has to Stop Now Learning When to Pull the Plug
- 18 Missing in Action How Assumptions, Language, History, and Soft Skills Influenced a Cross-Cultural Participatory Evaluation
- Part VII Justify Conclusions
- 19 āThis Is Highly Illogicalā How a Spock Evaluator Learns That Context and Mixed Methods Are Everything
- 20 The Ripple That Became a Splash The Importance of Context and Why I Now Do Data Parties
- 21 The Voldemort Evaluation How I Learned to Survive Organizational Dysfunction, Confusion, and Distrust
- Part VIII Report and Ensure Use
- 22 The Only Way Out Is Through
- Conclusion