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This engaging text takes an evenhanded approach to major theoretical paradigms in evaluation and builds a bridge from them to evaluation practice. Featuring helpful checklists, procedural steps, provocative questions that invite readers to explore their own theoretical assumptions, and practical exercises, the book provides concrete guidance for conducting large- and small-scale evaluations. Numerous sample studies—many with reflective commentary from the evaluators—reveal the process through which an evaluator incorporates a paradigm into an actual research project. The book shows how theory informs methodological choices (the specifics of planning, implementing, and using evaluations). It offers balanced coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches.

 

Useful pedagogical features include:

*Examples of large- and small-scale evaluations from multiple disciplines.

*Beginning-of-chapter reflection questions that set the stage for the material covered.

*"Extending your thinking" questions and practical activities that help readers apply particular theoretical paradigms in their own evaluation projects.

*Relevant Web links, including pathways to more details about sampling, data collection, and analysis.

*Boxes offering a closer look at key evaluation concepts and additional studies.

*Checklists for readers to determine if they have followed recommended practice.

 

 

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• Hardcover: 621 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (February 20, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1462503241
• ISBN-13: 978-1462503247
• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.2 x 10 inches
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Download Program Evaluation Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive Guide PDF

Good, helpful for my college course and it was recommended by my professor to buy this book and got it on Amazon.com

By Daniel Gonzales

The book provides very clear examples of evaluations and explains the necessary steps to conducting an evaluation, but it takes some hunting to find the major points buried throughout the chapters. While the book presents various paradigmatic approachs to program evaluation, it is very clear throughout the text what the preferred approaches should be even though this largely the opinion of the authors. It has been a while since I read a purportedly comprehensive scholarly work that was so dismissive of postpositivistic approaches.

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