Essentials of utilization-focused evaluation / Michael Quinn Patton
Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2012Description: xxii, 461p. 23cmISBN:- 9781412977418
- 300.72 PAT
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300.72 OLI Understanding the research process / | 300.72 OLS Data collection : | 300.72 ORR Social experiments : | 300.72 PAT Essentials of utilization-focused evaluation / | 300.72 PAW Realistic evaluation / | 300.72 PAY Key concepts in social research / | 300.72 PAY Teaching quantitative methods : |
This book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts. The book integrates theory and practice, is based on both research and professional experience, and offers new case examples and cartoons with Patton's signature humor.
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