Evaluation in Today’s World

Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability

Veronica G. Thomas, Patricia B. Campbell

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781544348162
• eBook ISBN: 9781544348193
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)

Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability is a timely and comprehensive textbook that guides students, practitioners, and users of evaluations in understanding evaluation purposes, theories, methodologies, and challenges within today's sociocultural and political context. Veronica G. Thomas and Patricia B. Campbell include discussions of evaluation history, frameworks, models, types, planning, and methods, through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive lens. The authors focus on ethics in diverse cultural contexts, help readers understand how social problems and programs get politicized and, sometimes, framed through a racialized lens, show how to engage stakeholders in the evaluation process, and communicate results in culturally appropriate ways.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Publisher Note
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Evaluations of Future: Inclusive, Equity-Focused, Useful, and Used
• Chapter 2 Evaluation Ethics and Quality Standards
• Chapter 3 Historical Evolution of Program Evaluation Through a Social Justice Lens
• Chapter 4 Evaluation Paradigms, Theories, and Models
• Chapter 5 Social Justice and Evaluation: Theories, Challenges, Frameworks, and Paradigms
• Chapter 6 Evaluation Types With a Cultural and Racial Equity Lens
• Chapter 7 Social Programming, Social Justice, and Evaluation
• Chapter 8 Responsive Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization of the Evaluation Process
• Chapter 9 Planning the Evaluation
• Chapter 10 Evaluation Questions That Matter
• Chapter 11 Selecting Appropriate Evaluation Designs
• Chapter 12 Defining, Collecting, and Managing Data
• Chapter 13 The Best Analysis for the Data
• Chapter 14 Reporting, Disseminating, and Utilizing Evaluation Results
• Chapter 15 Evaluation as a Business
• Chapter 16 Interconnections and Practical Implications
• Appendix A: American Evaluation Association Evaluators’ Ethical Guiding Principles
• Appendix B: Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation Program Evaluation Standards
• Glossary of Terms
• References
• Index