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Implementation Monitoring and Process Evaluation



April 2015 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This practical guide helps readers understand and use the steps that program planners and evaluators take in implementing and monitoring a new program, policy, or practice in an organizational setting. The book covers the entire process, from planning, to carrying out the plan, and summarizing, reporting, and using the results. A wide range of real-world examples in the book are drawn from health, education, non-profit organizations, and public administration, and an extended case study, Your Turn boxes, and worksheet templates help readers apply concepts to their own projects. Ideal for practitioners, researchers, and students, this book can be used as a primary text for a process evaluation or an implementation monitoring course or as a supplemental text in a broader program evaluation course.
 
Introduction, Overview, and Perspectives
 
Phase I. Basic Program Planning
 
Step 1. Conduct Preimplementation Planning
 
Phase II. Implementation Planning
 
Step 2. Describe the Program, Policy, or Practice, Organizational Setting, and Broader Context
 
Step 3. Determine Strategies for Facilitating Adoption of the Program, Policy, or Practice at the Organizational Level
 
Step 4. Establish Complete and Acceptable Delivery/ Installation of the Program, Policy, or Practice
 
Step 5. Develop Strategies for Facilitating Program, Policy, or Practice Implementation and Sustainability
 
Step 6. Develop or Update the Action Model, Action Plan, and Logic Model to Integrate Planning
 
Phase III. Implementation Monitoring Planning
 
Step 7. Develop Initial Implementation Monitoring Questions
 
Step 8. Choose Implementation Monitoring Methods and Compile the Comprehensive Implementation Monitoring Plan
 
Phase IV. Implementation
 
Step 9. Implement the Program, Policy, or Practice and Use Implementation Data for Formative Purposes
 
Step 10. Collect and Manage Implementation Data
 
Phase V. A nalysis/Synthesis, Reporting, and Use
 
Step 11. Analyze and Synthesize Implementation Monitoring Data
 
Step 12. Report and Use Implementation Data
 
Future Directions

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Student Resource Site
Use the Student Study Site to get the most out of your course!

Our Student Study Site at http://study.sagepub.com/saunders is completely open-access and features worksheets and tables from the book for you to download and use in the field.

Across the whole text it is clear that the author has been there. The manuscript is filled with concrete and grounded tips for being successful at doing this ‘messy’ work.

Gene Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Many students are keen to test interventions across a range of topic areas and in a range of settings. A better understanding of the intricacies of intervention development, delivery and evaluation is an important part of many student's development. In particular, a better understanding of the benefits of a good process evaluation in addition to the more obvious outcome measures is something that is important. This book offers a theoretical foundation for process evaluation but its strength is in the illustrations that it offers from real world evaluations. In particular, the use of physical activity illustrations is of great benefit to many students that I work with.

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

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Ruth P. Saunders

Ruth P. Saunders, PhD, is an professor emerita in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Saunders has 25 years of research and practice experience in conducting program, policy, and practice change in organizational settings, including preschools, schools, after-school settings, children’s group homes, and faith-based settings. Her roles in these projects, which include eight large-scale interventions, have encompassed using multi-level conceptual models to develop a comprehensive model of organizational environments, constructing... More About Author

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