Program Evaluation Forms and Approaches

by Owen, John M.; Alkin, Marvin C.

• ISBN13: 9781593854119
• ISBN10: 1593854110
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Using an issues-driven perspective, Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, monitoring, and impact.

Author Biography

John M. Owen is Principal Fellow at the Centre for Program Evaluation at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Figures and Tables	xix
1 Evaluation Fundamentals	1	(21)
2 The Nature of Interventions: What We Evaluate	22	(17)
3 Focusing Evaluative Inquiry: Evaluation Forms and Approaches	39	(24)
4 Negotiation and Evaluation Planning	63	(24)
5 From Evaluation Questions to Evaluation Findings	87	(18)
6 From Evaluation Findings to Utilization	105	(27)
7 Managing Evaluation	132	(17)
8 Codes of Behavior for Evaluators	149	(20)
9 Proactive Evaluation	169	(22)
10 Clarificative Evaluation	191	(26)
11 Interactive Evaluation	217	(20)
12 Monitoring Evaluation	237	(15)
13 Impact Evaluation	252	(41)
Index	293