Essentials of utilization-focused evaluation

Essentials of utilization-focused evaluation
Michael Quinn Patton, Michael ...
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Essentials of utilization-focused evaluation

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Table of Contents

Step 1. assess and build program and organizational readiness for utilization-focused evaluation
Step 2. assess and enhance evaluator readiness and competence to undertake a utilization-focused evaluation
Step 3. identify, organize, and engage primary intended users : the personal factor
Step 4. situation analysis conducted jointly with primary intended users
Step 5. identify and prioritize primary intended uses by determining priority purposes
Step 6. consider and build in process uses if and as appropriate
Step 7. focus priority evaluation questions
Step 8. check that fundamental areas for evaluation inquiry are being adequately addressed : implementation, outcomes, and attribution questions
Step 9. determine what intervention model or theory of change is being evaluated
Step 10. negotiate appropriate methods to generate credible findings that support intended use by intended users
Step 11. make sure intended users understand potential methods controversies and their implications
Step 12. simulate use of findings : evaluation's equivalent of a dress rehearsal
Step 13. gather data with ongoing attention to use
Step 14. organize and present the data for interpretation and use by primary intended users : analysis, interpretation, judgment, and recommendations
Step 15. prepare an evaluation report to facilitate use and disseminate significant findings to expand influence
Step 16. follow up with primary intended users to facilitate and enhance use
Step 17. metaevaluation of use : be accountable, learn, and improve.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Thousand Oaks, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
300.72
Library of Congress
H62.5.U5 P3688 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24885412M
ISBN 13
9781412977418
LCCN
2011019187

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