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Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Fourth Edition
- Michael Quinn Patton - Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Saint Paul, MN
June 2008 | 688 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Both practical and theoretical, the Fourth Edition of the bestseller shows how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. This entirely rewritten edition offers readers a full-fledged evaluation text from identifying primary users of an evaluation to focusing the evaluation, making methods decisions, analyzing data, and presenting findings.
Key Features of the Fourth Edition
- Provides thoroughly updated materials: all chapters have updated references, new exhibits and sidebars, and new examples and stories—and most have new cartoons.
- Offers new developments in stakeholder analysis
- Includes a utilization-focused checklist
- Gives greater emphasis on mixed methods
- Details the explosion of international evaluation
- Contains updated web references, examples, and citations
PART I. TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS
1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate
2. What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started?
3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor
4. Intended Uses of Findings
5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences
PART II. FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS, AND DECISIONS
6. Situational Evaluation: Being Active-Reactive-Interactive-Adaptive
7. Focusing on Outcomes: Beyond the Goals Clarification Game
8. Evaluation Focus Options: Developmental Evaluation and Other Alternatives
9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program?
10. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change
PART III. APPROPRIATE METHODS
11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions
12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis
13. The Meanings and Reporting of Evaluation Findings: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations
PART IV. REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION
14. Power, Politics, and Ethics
15. Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Processes and Premises