Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice

Ev, Baizerman, Compton

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 121
• This issue explores the many issues in understanding managing evaluation: an omnipresent, if often invisible process guiding evaluation studies, evalu... Lees meer

Program Evaluation in a Complex Organizational System: Lessons from Cooperative Extension

Ev, Arnold, Braverman

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 120
• This issue of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on evaluation in complex organizations. The themes that are examined?the mainstreaming of evaluati... Lees meer

The Use of Online Surveys in Evaluation

Ev, Ritter, Sue

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 115
• Rapid development and diffusion of computer technology in daily life has created a wealth of problems and possibilities for researchers. E-mail and th... Lees meer

Critical Issues in Stem Evaluation

Ev

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 109
• This volume of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on evaluation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, with special ... Lees meer

Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 141
• Gain a greater understanding of organizational capacity to do and use evaluation and implications for evaluation capacity building (ECB). This volume ... Lees meer

Environmental Program and Policy Evaluation: Addressing Methodological Challenges

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 122
• Although environmental policy and program evaluation emerged rather late compared to many other areas of public policy, an energetic evaluation commun... Lees meer

Enhancing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Through Evaluation

Ev (Evaluation), Ev, Baker Sidney MacDonald

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 126
• The first priniciple of humanitarian assistance is "do no harm." The second might be, "do better!" Enter the evaluation of emergency and disaster mana... Lees meer

Mixed Methods and Credibility of Evidence in Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 138
• Mixed methods in evaluation have the potential to enhance the credibility of evaluation and the outcomes of evaluation. This issue explores advances i... Lees meer

Evaluation Voices from Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 134
• Hear from evaluation practitioners throughout Latin America. In this region program evaluation is an emergent practice, one that is shaped by distinct... Lees meer

The Systematic Screening and Assessment Method

Ev, Dawkins, Khan

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 125
• The rationale, application, and outcomes of the Systemic Screening and Assessment (SSA) Method, an innovative combination of existing evaluation metho... Lees meer

Teaching Evaluation Using the Case Method

Patrizi, Quinn Patton

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 105
• The absence of readily available teaching cases has been a significant gap in the field of evaluation. This volume aims to begin filling that gap by p... Lees meer

In Search of Cultural Competence in Evaluation

Ev, Greene, Hopson

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 102
• This volume focuses on culturally competent evaluation. The chapters address a number of questions: How does culture matter in evaluation theory and p... Lees meer

Informing Federal Policies on Evaluation Methodology: Building the Evidence Base for Method Choice in Government Sponsored Evaluations

Ev, Julnes, Rog

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 113
• One of the most divisive issues in the evaluation community has been the debate over which methodologies are to be considered adequate or commendable ... Lees meer

Promoting Value in the Public Interest: Informing Policies for Judging Value in Evaluation

Ev, Julnes

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 133
• Do you make evidence-based decisions when designing and conducting evaluations, and use methods validated by experience? Because of the growing import... Lees meer

Evaluation Findings That Surprise

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 90
• This volume shows how evaluators can play a vital role in shaping publicpolicy by testing the validity of widely held beliefs. The contributorsprovide... Lees meer

Performance Management and Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 137
• This issue focuses on connections between performance management and evaluation, a contentious topic at the moment. It does so by placing evaluation a... Lees meer

Art Craft Science Evaluation Cap Bld 93

Donald W Compton, Michael Baizerman, Stacey Hueftle Stockdill

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 93
• Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) is now being given attention, but as yet there is only a small literature about this necessary and seemingly rare p... Lees meer

Nonprofits and Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 119
• Explore the relationships between nonprofits, funders, and evaluation and how recent trends and developments in the philanthropic and government secto... Lees meer

Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation

Ev, Coghlan, Preskill

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 100
• This issue explores the potential role of Appreciative Inquiry, a process that searches for what is best in people and organizations, in evaluation. C... Lees meer

Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice

Ev, Cooksy, Mark

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 123
• This issue of New Directions for Evaluation addresses the topic of evaluation policy, especially how it is informed by and affects evaluation practice... Lees meer

Global Advances in HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation

Ev, Carael, Peersman

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 103
• The focus of this issue is on global advances in conducting monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Only by i... Lees meer

Multisite Evaluation Practice

Ev, King, Lawrenz

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 129
• Multisite evaluation settings differ from the single settings common to research on evaluation use. In addition to the primary intended users, there i... Lees meer

Really New Directions in Evaluation: Young Evaluators' Perspectives

Ev, Mathison

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Evaluation | nr. 131
• This issue of New Directions for Evaluation (NDE) marks a milestone: the 25th anniversary of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). NDE is an offi... Lees meer