Handbook of evaluation : policies, programs and practices /: policies, programs and practices. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Sage handbook of evaluation
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ian F. Shaw, Jennifer C. Greene, Melvin M. Mark.
• Other Names: Shaw, Ian, 1945-; Greene, Jennifer C; Mark, Melvin M
• Contents: The Evaluation of Policies, Programs and Practices - Melvin M Mark, Jennifer C Greene and Ian Shaw; An Introduction; PART ONE: ROLE AND PURPOSE OF EVALUATION IN SOCIETY; The Purposes of Evaluation in a Democratic Society - Eleanor Chelimsky; Roles for Theory in Contemporary Evaluation Practice - Stewart I Donaldson and Mark W Lipsey; Developing Practical Knowledge; Evaluation for Practice Improvement and Organizational Learning - Patricia J Rogers and Bob Williams; Evaluation and the Study of Lived Experience - Thomas A Schwandt and Holli Burgon; Evaluation, Democracy and Social Change - Jennifer C Greene; Evaluation after Disenchantment? Five Issues Shaping the Role of Evaluation in Society - Peter Dahler-Larsen; PART TWO: EVALUATION AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE; Government as Structural Context for Evaluation - Phil Davies, Kathryn Newcomer and Haluk Soydan; The Social Relations of Evaluation - Tineke A Abma; Intellectual Contexts - John Stevenson and David Thomas; The Relationship between Evaluation and Politics - Ove Karlsson Vestman and Ross F Conner; Ethics in Evaluation - Helen Simons; A Comparative Analysis of Evaluation Utilization and Its Cognate Fields of Inquiry - J Bradley Cousins and Lyn M Shulha; Current Issues and Trends; Contextual Challenges for Evaluation Practice - Elliot Stern; PART THREE: THE PRACTICE OF EVALUATION; Methods for Policymaking and Knowledge Development Evaluations - Melvin M Mark and Gary T Henry; Embedding Improvements, Lived Experience and Social Justice in Evaluation Practice - Elizabeth Whitmore et al; Managing Evaluations - Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman; Communicating Evaluation - Marvin C Alkin, Christina A Christie and Mike Rose; On Discerning Quality in Evaluation - Robert E Stake and Thomas A Schwandt; The Practice of Evaluation: Challenges and New Directions - Lois-ellin Datta; PART FOUR: DOMAINS OF EVALUATION PRACTICE; Evaluation in Education - David Nevo; Evaluation of Health Services: Reflections on Practice - Andrew Long; Social Work and the Human Services - Ian Shaw with Carol T Mowbray and Hazel Qureshi; Evaluation in Criminal Justice - Nick Tilley and Alan Clarke; Evaluation of Development Interventions and Humanitarian Action - Osvaldo Feinstein and Tony Beck; Evidence-Based Evaluation in Different Professional Domains - Alan Clarke; Similarities, Differences and Challenges;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 608 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 001.4; Evaluation; Evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780761973058; 0761973052; 9781446270554; 1446270556; 9781446207000; 1446207005
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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