Utilization focused evaluation: the new century text
"Can evaluation be used to improve programs? Can it contribute to program effectiveness? Do evaluators bear any responsibility for evaluation use and program improvement? This skillfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator, Michael Quinn Patton, answers these questions and provid...
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| Summary: | "Can evaluation be used to improve programs? Can it contribute to program effectiveness? Do evaluators bear any responsibility for evaluation use and program improvement? This skillfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator, Michael Quinn Patton, answers these questions and provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice. Entirely rewritten, this 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." "Both practical and theoretical, Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text, Third Edition tells how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and actual case examples to illustrate major points."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 431 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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| adam_text | Preface xiii
PART 1. Toward More Useful Evaluations 1
1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate 3
2. What Is Utilization Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started? 19
3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor 39
4. Intended Uses of Findings 63
5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluation Thinking and Experiences 87
PART 2. Focusing Evaluations: Choices, Options, and Decisions 115
6. Being Active Reactive Adaptive: Evaluator Roles,
Situational Responsiveness, and Strategie Contingency Thinking 117
7. Beyond the Goals Clarification Game: Focusing on Outcomes 147
8. Focusing an Evaluation: Alternatives to Goals Based Evaluation 177
9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program? 195
10. The Program s Theory of Action: Conceptualizing Causal Linkages 215
PART 3. Appropriate Methods 239
11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization Focused Methods Decisions 241
12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilitarian Synthesis 265
13. Deciphering Data and Reporting Results: Analysis, Interpretations,
Judgments, and Recommendations 301
PART 4. Realities and Practicalities of Utilization Focused Evaluation 339
14. Power, Politics, and Ethics 341
15. Utilization Focused Evaluation: Process and Premises 371
References 387
Index 415
About the Author 431
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Preface xiii
PARTI. Toward More Useful Evaluations 1
1. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate 3
Evaluation Use as a Critical Societal Issue 4
High Hopes for Evaluation 6
Historical Context 10
New Directions in Accountability 12
Standards of Excellence for Evaluation 15
2. What Is Utilization Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started? 19
A Comprehensive Approach 20
The First Challenge: Engendering Commitment 22
Charitable Assessment 25
Learning to Value Evaluation 26
Generating Real Questions 29
Creative Beginnings 33
3. Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users: The Personal Factor 39
The First Step in Utilization Focused Evaluation 41
Evaluation s Premier Lesson 50
Practical Implications of the Personal Factor 50
User Focused Evaluation in Practice 58
Beyond Just Beginning 60
4. Intended Uses of Findings 63
Identifying Intended Uses From the Beginning 63
Three Uses of Findings 64
Applying Purpose and Use Distinctions 75
Connecting Decisions to Uses 84
5. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluation Thinking and Experiences 87
Process as Outcome 88
Process Use Defined 90
A Menu: Uses of Evaluation Logic and Processes 90
Using Evaluation to Enhance Shared Understandings 91
Evaluation as an Integral Programmatic Intervention 93
Supporting Engagement, Self Determination, and Ownership:
Participatory, Collaborative, and Empowerment Evaluation 97
Program and Organization Development: Developmental Evaluation 103
Concerns, Controversies, and Caveats 110
PART 2. Focusing Evaluations: Choices, Options, and Decisions 115
6. Being Active Reactive Adaptive: Evaluator Roles, Situational Responsiveness,
and Strategic Contingency Thinking 117
Evaluation Conditions 118
Changing Uses Over Time 119
Variable Evaluator Roles Linked to Variable Evaluation Purposes 121
Situational Evaluation 126
Internal and External Evaluators 138
7. Beyond the Goals Clarification Game: Focusing on Outcomes 147
Evaluation of the Bear Project 147
Whose Goals Will Be Evaluated? 148
Communicating About Goals and Results 153
Focusing on Outcomes and Results 154
Utilization Focused Outcomes Framework 158
Meaningful and Useful Goals 167
Levels of Goal Specification 169
The Personal Factor Revisited 174
8. Focusing an Evaluation: Alternatives to Goals Based Evaluation 177
More Than One Way to Manage a Horse 177
Problems With Goals Based Evaluation 179
Goal Free Evaluation 181
A Menu Approach to Focusing Evaluations 184
Changing Focus Over Time: Stage Models of Evaluation 187
9. Implementation Evaluation: What Happened in the Program? 195
Checking the Inventory 196
The Importance of Implementation Analysis 197
Focus on Utility: Information for Action and Decisions 199
Ideal Program Plans and Actual Implementation 200
Variations and Options in Implementation Evaluation 205
Connecting Goals and Implementation 211
10. The Program s Theory of Action: Conceptualizing Causal Linkages 215
All the World s a Stage for Theory 215
Mountaintop Inferences 216
Reflections on Causality in Evaluation 216
The Theory Option in Evaluation: Constructing a Means Ends Hierarchy 217
Three Approaches to Program Theory 219
User Focused Theory of Action Approach 221
Getting at Assumptions and Causal Connections 225
Developing a Theory of Action as Process Use 229
Theory Informing Practice, Practice Informing Theory 232
Utilization Focused Evaluation Theory of Action 234
Causal Theorizing in Perspective 237
PART 3. Appropriate Methods 239
11. Evaluations Worth Using: Utilization Focused Methods Decisions 241
Methods to Support Intended Uses, Chosen by Intended Users 241
The Million Man March 244
Methods and Measurement Options 247
Assuring Methodological Quality and Excellence 248
Credibility and Use 250
Overall Evaluation Validity 251
Believable and Understandable Data 253
Trade Offs 257
Truth and Utility 259
Designing Evaluations Worth Using: Reflections on the State of the Art 264
12. The Paradigms Debate and a Utilitarian Synthesis 265
Training 265
The Paradigms Debate 267
Dimensions of the Competing Paradigms 272
Whither the Evaluation Methods Paradigms Debate?
The Debate Has Withered 290
Utilization Focused Synthesis: A Paradigm of Choices 297
13. Deciphering Data and Reporting Results: Analysis, Interpretations,
Judgments, and Recommendations 301
Setting the Stage for Use 302
A Framework for Reviewing Data 307
Arranging Data for Ease of Interpretation: Focusing the Analysis 307
Simplicity in Data Presentations 309
Interpretations and Judgments 315
Making Claims 321
Useful Recommendations 324
Controversy About Recommendations 326
A Futures Perspective on Recommendations 328
Utilization Focused Reporting 329
Utilization Focused Reporting Principles 330
Final Reflections 337
PART 4. Realities and Practicalities of Utilization Focused Evaluation 339
14. Power, Politics, and Ethics 341
Politics and Evaluation: A Case Example 341
The Political Nature of Evaluation 343
The Power of Evaluation 348
Political Maxims for Utilization Focused Evaluators 350
The Political Foundations of Organizing Stakeholders
Into an Evaluation Task Force 352
Political Rules in Support of Use 356
Fears of Political Co optation 357
Evaluation Misuse 359
Ethics of Being User Focused 361
Guarding Against Corruption of an Evaluation 365
Moral Discourse 366
15. Utilization Focused Evaluation: Process and Premises 371
A User s Perspective 371
The Flow of a Utilization Focused Evaluation Process 376
The Achilles Heel of Utilization Focused Evaluation 380
Fundamental Premises of Utilization Focused Evaluation 381
A Vision of an Experimenting Society and Experimenting Evaluators 384
References 387
: Index 415
About the Author 431
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