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Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation
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Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation


Volume: 50
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Evaluation | Research Methods

October 2006 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation is a thorough, accessible guide to concept mapping for social or organizational researchers in any context. The volume describes the history of structured conceptualization-a most useful form of concept mapping. It also highlights the advantages that group or community concept mapping has over other kinds of group decision processes. With straightforward language and useful examples from the authors' 40 combined years of creating and working with this process, the book describes in detail the six major steps in the conduct of group concept mapping, and shares both the process of concept mapping and the equally important facilitation and guidance techniques that the authors have developed.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
1. An Introduction to Concept Mapping
 
2. Preparing for Concept Mapping
 
3. Generating the Ideas
 
4. Structuring the Statements
 
5. Concept Mapping Analysis
 
6. Interpreting the Maps
 
7. Using Concept Mapping in Planning
 
8. Using Concept Mapping in Evaluation
 
9. Mapping the Future
 
Appendix: Concept Mapping Dissertations
 
References
 
Index
 
About the Authors

Mary Kane and Bill Trochim are the public face of “concept mapping” for most us who do planning and evaluation in public health.  This volume is an enormously helpful and comprehensive look at concept mapping not only for those unfamiliar with the concept, but for those, like me, who have experienced the approach as a consumer, but have interest in the intricacies of the “hows” and “added value” of concept mapping over other approaches.  Best of all, they do an exceptional job of using concept mapping to integrate planning and evaluation, linking the hermetically sealed boxes in which these disciplines often live in large organizations.

Thomas Chapel
CDC, Office of Strategy and Innovation

"At last, an up-to-date, how-to-text on concept mapping in evaluation!...Mary Kane and William Trochim, instrumental in the development and promotion of concept mapping, have finally produced such  book, which will enable experienced evaluators and program planners to add concept mapping to their suite of methods."

Rick Cummings
Evaluation Journal of Australasia

Very useful book!

Dr Katharina Fellnhofer
Entrepreneurship & Innovation, New Design University
July 6, 2015

The design of interventions is an area that demands attention to detail and a series of recognised stages in order to produce the best intervention and to be able to evaluate its impact as robustly as possible. This text covers a key element of intervention design for year 3 and post grad students and demonstrates some of the complexities of intervention design, implementation and evaluation.

Mr Ben Jane
Faculty of Sport, Media and Management, University of St Mark & St John
December 10, 2015

Too complex for the level of student.

Fiona Whitwham
Children's Nursing, London South Bank University
April 26, 2010

Mary A. Kane

Mary Kane, MSLIS, is President of Concept Systems, Inc., a social research and evaluation firm specializing in capturing the knowledge and opinions of people and agencies to improve organizations, cultures and environments. Ms. Kane assesses and addresses the needs of local, national and international agencies, guiding government offices, foundations, professional associations, corporations and academic and research institutions to awareness, consensus and decisions. A special emphasis in Mary’s work is creating awareness of “group wisdom” in a community or organization, and guiding groups to harness collective knowledge to produce... More About Author

William M. K. Trochim

Prof. Trochim is the Director of Evaluation for the Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center -- a collaboration of Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Hospital for Special Surgery, Hunter College and Cornell Cooperative Extension -- and participates actively in the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards national evaluation. He is developing evaluation systems for the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He is actively engaged in research with the National Science Foundation... More About Author

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