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Evaluation in Action
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Evaluation in Action
Interviews With Expert Evaluators

July 2008 | 472 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Designed to take readers behind the scenes of real evaluations and introduce them to the issues faced and decisions made by notable evaluators in the field, this book builds on 'Exemplars', a popular section in the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE), in which a well-known evaluator is interviewed about an evaluation he or she has conducted. Through a dialogue between the evaluator and the interviewer, the reader learns about the problems the evaluator faced in conducting the evaluation and the choices and compromises they made.
 
Preface
 
Chapter 1: Evaluation and Its Practice: Some Key Considerations and Choices
 
Part I: Traditional Evaluations with a Primary purpose of Judging Merit and Worth
 
Chapter 2: The Evaluation of GAIN: A Welfare-to-Work Program in California, An Interview with James A. Riccio
 
Chapter 3: Evaluation of the Natural Resources Leadership Program, 1995 through 1998, An Interview with Jennifer C. Greene
 
Chapter 4: The Evaluation of the Ft. Bragg and Stark County Systems of Care for Children and Adolescents, An Interview with Len Bickman
 
Part II: Evaluations with a Focus on Description
 
Chapter 5: The Evaluation of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP), An Interview with David Fetterman
 
Chapter 6: The Evaluation of the Homeless Families Program, An Interview with Debra J. Rog
 
Chapter 7: The Council for School Performance: Performance Reports for Georgia Schools, An Interview with Gary T. Henry
 
Part III: Evaluations with an Emphasis on Program Planning and Organizational Development
 
Chapter 8: Evaluation of the Special Education Program at the Anoka-Hennepin School District, An Interview with Jean A. King
 
Chapter 9: Evaluation of the Work and Health Initiative with a Focus on Winning New Jobs, An Interview with Stewart I. Donaldson
 
Chapter 10: Developing an Evaluation System for the Corporate Education Development and Training (CEDT) Department at Sandia National Laboratories, An Interview with Hallie Preskill
 
Chapter 11: Evaluation of the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative, An Interview with Ross Conner
 
Part IV: Evaluations Concerning Cultural Competence
 
Chapter 12: Evaluation of the Fun with Books Program, An Interview with Katrina Bledsoe
 
Chapter 13: Evaluation of Godfrey?s Children Center in Tanzania, An Interview with Allan Wallis and Victor Dukay
 
Part V: Analysis, Interpretations, and Conclusions
 
Chapter 14: Exemplars? Choices: What Do These Cases Tell Us About Practice?
 
Chapter 15: Analyzing the Practice of Evaluation: What Do these Cases Tell Us About Theory?
 
Appendix I: Other Categories for the Interviews
 
About the Authors

"A timely introduction to how evaluators go about the business of evaluation. Evaluation in Action will be useful for evaluators at all stages, experienced and new, and for students."

Carol J. Evans

"As one of the few collections of evaluator applied reasoning and practical insights, this volume is a useful resource for students, practitioners,and theorists/methodologists who want to better understand how evaluators think in practice and make decisions; how flow of workand events arising in the field shape the nature and use of evaluation theory, method, and practice."

Leigh M. Tolley and Nick L. Smith
Syracuse University
The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation

My students really enjoyed this book. It made program evaluation come alive.

Dr Robbie Robichau
Institute for Public & Nonprofit Studies, Georgia Southern University
December 17, 2013
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Versatile text for a variety of disciplines. Only criticism is font size not the easiest to read.

Miss Tracey Barnfather
Midwifery Division, Northampton University
February 15, 2013
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This book is used in a prerequisite class and will be a secondary course text for this course. It is clear and flexible and provides a bridge between courses in our sequence.

Dr Paula Dawidowicz
School Of Education, Walden University
October 12, 2012
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This text offers useful insight into the process and uses of evaluation.

Mrs Valerie Keating
Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University
November 10, 2009
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Jody L. Fitzpatrick

Jody L. Fitzpatrick is Director of the Master’s in Public Administration Program and an Associate Professor with the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines (Third Edition, Pearson, 2004; with James Sanders and Blaine Worthen). Dr. Fitzpatrick’s interests include evaluation practice, ethics, and education policy. Dr. Fitzpatrick has many years of experience conducting evaluations, first as an internal evaluator in Appalachia and New York and then as an external evaluator in a variety of settings. She has published in Evaluation... More About Author

Christina A. Christie

Christina A. Christie is a Professor and Head of the Social Research Methodology Division in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Christie specializes in educational and social policy and program evaluation. Her research focuses on the factors and conditions that influence evaluation practice in an effort to strengthen our understanding of evaluation as a method for facilitating social change. She has published extensively and her work appears in journals such American Journal of Evaluation, Children and Youth Services Review, Evaluation and Program Planning, Studies in... More About Author

Melvin M. Mark

Melvin M. Mark is professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also is Head of the Department of Psychology.  He has served as President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA).  He was Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation (and is now Editor Emeritus). A social psychologist, Dr. Mark has wide ranging interests related to the theory, methodology and practice of evaluation, as well as a general interest in the application of social psychology to evaluation and applied social research. Dr. Mark’s awards include the American Evaluation Association’s Lazarsfeld Award for Contributions to... More About Author

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