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- catalog abstract ""Can evaluation be used to improve programs? Can it contribute to program effectiveness? Do evaluators bear any responsibility for evaluation use and program improvement? This skillfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator, Michael Quinn Patton, answers these questions and provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice. Entirely rewritten, this edition offers readers a full-fledged evaluation text from identifying primary users of an evaluation to focusing the evaluation, making methods decisions, analyzing data, and presenting findings." "Both practical and theoretical, Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text, Third Edition tells how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and actual case examples to illustrate major points."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10069908.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Can evaluation be used to improve programs? Can it contribute to program effectiveness? Do evaluators bear any responsibility for evaluation use and program improvement? This skillfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator, Michael Quinn Patton, answers these questions and provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice. Entirely rewritten, this edition offers readers a full-fledged evaluation text from identifying primary users of an evaluation to focusing the evaluation, making methods decisions, analyzing data, and presenting findings." "Both practical and theoretical, Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text, Third Edition tells how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and actual case examples to illustrate major points."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-413) and index.".
- catalog description "Toward more useful evaluations. Evaluation use : both challenge and mandate -- What is utilization-focused evaluation? How do you get started? -- Fostering intended use by intended users : the personal factor -- Intended uses of findings -- Intended process uses : impacts of evaluation, thinking and experiences -- Focusing evaluations : choices, options and decisions. Being active-reactive-adaptive : evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contingency thinking -- Beyond the goals, clarification game : focusing on outcomes -- Focusing an evaluation : alternatives to goals-based evaluation -- Implementation evaluation : What happened in the program? -- The program's theory of action : conceptualizing causal linkages -- Appropriate methods. Evaluations worth using : utilization-focused methods decisions -- The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis -- Deciphering data and reporting results : analysis, interpretations, judgments, and recommendations -- Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation. Power, politics, and ethics -- Utilization-focused evaluation : process and premises.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 431 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Utilization-focused evaluation.".
- catalog identifier "0803952643 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0803952651 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Utilization-focused evaluation.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,".
- catalog relation "Utilization-focused evaluation.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "361.6/1/072 20".
- catalog subject "Evaluation research (Social action programs) United States.".
- catalog subject "H62.5.U5 P37 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward more useful evaluations. Evaluation use : both challenge and mandate -- What is utilization-focused evaluation? How do you get started? -- Fostering intended use by intended users : the personal factor -- Intended uses of findings -- Intended process uses : impacts of evaluation, thinking and experiences -- Focusing evaluations : choices, options and decisions. Being active-reactive-adaptive : evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contingency thinking -- Beyond the goals, clarification game : focusing on outcomes -- Focusing an evaluation : alternatives to goals-based evaluation -- Implementation evaluation : What happened in the program? -- The program's theory of action : conceptualizing causal linkages -- Appropriate methods. Evaluations worth using : utilization-focused methods decisions -- The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis -- Deciphering data and reporting results : analysis, interpretations, judgments, and recommendations -- Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation. Power, politics, and ethics -- Utilization-focused evaluation : process and premises.".
- catalog title "Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text / Michael Quinn Patton.".
- catalog type "text".