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Evaluation in the face of uncertainty : anticipating surprise and responding to the inevitable /
Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in costs of evaluation surprises. The result is evaluation that is better from a methodological point o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Guilford Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Front Matter; Contents; Chapter 1 From Firefi ghting to Systematic Action; Chapter 2 Structure of the Unexpected; Chapter 3 Placing Surprise in the Evaluation Landscape; Chapter 4 Minimizing Foreseeable Surprise; Chapter 5 Shifting from Advance Planning to Early Detection; Chapter 6 Agile Evaluation; Chapter 7 How Much Is Too Much?; Chapter 8 Applying the Examples to Categories of Cases; Chapter 9 Applying the Examples to Categories of Cases; Chapter 10 Lessons from Individual Cases; Chapter 11 Lessons from Individual Cases; Chapter 12 Unanticipated Program Outcomes.
- Chapter 13 Concluding ThoughtsCase 1 Grasping at Straws and Discovering a Different Program Theory; Case 2 Shifting Sands in a Training Evaluation Context; Case 3 Evaluating Programs Aimed at Promoting Child Well-Being; Case 4 Assessing the Impact of Providing Laptop Computers to Students; Case 5 Quasi-Experimental Strategies When Randomization Fails; Case 6 Unexpected Changes in Program Delivery; Case 7 Evaluating Costs and Benefi ts of Consumer-Operated Services; Case 8 Keep Up with the Program!; Case 9 Assumptions about School Staff's Competencies and Likely Program Impacts.
- Case 10 Mixed Method Evaluation of a Support Project for Nonprofi t OrganizationsCase 11 Evaluating the Health Impacts of Central Heating; Case 12 Recruiting Target Audience; Case 13 Unintended Consequences of Changing Funder Requirements Midproject on Outcome Evaluation Design and Results in HIV Outreach Services; Case 14 Generating and Using Evaluation Feedback for Providing Countywide Family Support Services; Case 15 Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Female Clients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Israel.
- Case 16 From Unintended to Undesirable Effects of Health InterventionCase 17 Unintended Consequences and Adapting Evaluation; Case 18 Evaluation of the Integrated Services Pilot Program from Western Australia; References; Index; About the Author; Contributors.