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Evaluation Time
A Practical Guide for Evaluation



September 2022 | 608 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book is an accessible, contemporary, and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation. Authors Gail Vallance Barrington and Beverly Triana-Tremain integrate new approaches and concerns, and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies. They show how evaluators measure whether the planned and implemented interventions or services are achieving their goals and objectives, while focusing on the questions most important to the community and organizations in which the evaluation takes place. The book stresses the role of critical and evaluative thinking, as well as self-reflection, and demonstrates the importance of context and equity in today’s turbulent environment, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.

An instructor website for this book at https://edge.sagepub.com/barringtonevaluation1e provides essay questions and activities, as well as editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides for use with the book.
 
Part 1 Fundamentals of Evaluation
 
Chapter 1 The Scope of Evaluation
 
Chapter 2 How Evaluators Think
 
Chapter 3 Program Logic
 
Part 2 Evaluation and the Program Life Cycle
 
Chapter 4 Pre- and Early Program Evaluation
 
Chapter 5 Mid-Cycle Program Evaluation
 
Chapter 6 End of Cycle Program Evaluation
 
Part 3 Evaluation Methods
 
Chapter 7 Using Quantitative Methods in Evaluation
 
Chapter 8 Using Qualitative Methods in Evaluation
 
Chapter 9 Using Mixed Methods in Evaluation
 
Part 4 Communicating about Evaluation
 
Chapter 10 The Evaluation Plan
 
Chapter 11 Communication, Reporting, and Use
 
Chapter 12 Evaluation Context and the Evaluator’s New Stance

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Scholarly excellence and current

Dr Krisanna Machtmes
Education Studies Dept, Ohio University
February 3, 2024

This book will be great for an evaluation course. Since evaluation is cover during only 1 week, this book, unfortunately, will not work for me. However, I might teach a course on evaluation in a couple of years, so I might reconsider this book.

Alexandre Mesquita
Education, Universite de Sherbrooke
February 14, 2023
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Gail Vallance Barrington

Gail Vallance Barrington is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and a certified teacher. During her 35 years as owner and manager of an independent consulting company, she completed over 130 evaluation studies, mainly in education, health, and research. She has authored articles, book chapters, and the popular book, Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE, 2012). She has served on the boards of both the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Awards include the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award (2008) and the AEA Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award... More About Author

Beverly F. Triana-Tremain

Beverly Triana-Tremain has at least 35 years of public health teaching and consulting experience. Her areas of expertise are public health, evaluation, and quality improvement. Currently, she serves as Epidemiologist with the University of Oklahoma. As part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC), she supports the preventionist workforce in changing community risk factors for substance misuse and mental health disorders. She received her Bachelor of Science at Texas A & M University – Commerce, a Master of Science at Texas Woman’s University in Exercise Science with... More About Author

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