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Evaluation Management
How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter

First Edition


February 2024 | 184 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Evaluation Management: How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter helps evaluation teams and commissioners achieve results that meet utilization and organizational learning goals and inform positive change for programs and communities. Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas and E. Jane Davidson provide insights on both the tactical and strategic levels of evaluation management, using approaches and skills from project management, administration and logistics, budgeting, team management, leadership development, communication, coaching, systems thinking, and negotiation. They also demonstrate how intentionality for equity, sustainability and culturally responsive practices is essential for ensuring an evaluation’s relevance and enhancing productive stakeholder engagement. With plenty of practical guidance from many years of experience, the authors provide a valuable resource for student readers, experienced evaluators, and commissioners of evaluation.

 
Chapter 1. Overview Of Evaluation Management
 
Chapter 2. Commissioning Great Evaluations
 
Chapter 3. Pre-Start Up: Analyzing the Evaluation Requirements
 
Chapter 4. Managing The Evaluation Contract Start-Up
 
Chapter 5. Managing The Evaluation Team
 
Chapter 6. Managing Data Collection
 
Chapter 7. Managing Data Analysis
 
Chapter 8. Managing Evaluation Reporting
 
Chapter 9: Managing Evaluation Use and Influence
 
Chapter 10. Building Evaluation Management Capacity for Evaluation Commissioners
 
References
 
Index

Evaluation quality and use depend on evaluation management. That makes this book essential for all evaluation professionals and commissioners of evaluations.

Michael Quinn Patton
Utilization-Focused Evaluation

This is a comprehensive "one-stop shop" guide for evaluation practitioners and evaluation managers: practical, succinct, and full of common-sense advice and wisdom. It shows that the authors speak from experience and expertise.

Huilan Krenn
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

A savvy introduction to evaluation management by authors who had, independently from each other and almost alone in the community, provided insight on this topic. Evaluation will look more significant and worthwhile if managed the way it is suggested in this book.

Nicoletta Stame
Sapienza University of Roma, Italy

Catsambas and Davidson provide a practical, easy-to-read overview of how to manage program evaluations.

Marcus Galeste
Arizona State University

Anastasia (Tessie) Tzavaras Catsambas

Anastasia (Tessie) Tzavaras Catsambas is the founder and CEO/CFO of EnCompass LLC, an organization of 250 staff that provides services in evaluation, learning, leadership, and organizational development. Ms. Catsambas brings 30 years’ experience in planning, evaluation, and organizational development. She has managed large-scale, international evaluations, delivered training in different aspects of evaluation, and advocated for evaluation at global level. She is an instructor for the EnCompass Learning Center teaching appreciative evaluation, evaluation management, and gender transformative evaluation. Ms. Catsambas is an innovator and... More About Author

E. Jane Davidson

E. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for drawing conclusions about quality and value. She has also made significant contributions in the areas of causal inference for qualitative and mixed methods, and in synthesis methodologies for evaluation.Dr. Davidson is sought after internationally as a speaker and workshop presenter for her signature approach of methodologically robust but refreshingly practical evaluation with breathtaking clarity.She has presented keynotes and invited workshops in the US, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore,... More About Author

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ISBN: 9781544353128
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