Success Stories As Hard Data

by Kibel, Barry M.

• ISBN13: 9780306460722
• ISBN10: 0306460726
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

This volume presents the first comprehensive introduction to Results Mapping, an innovative, story-based approach for assessing the worth of social, health, and educational programs. Unlike most forms of evaluation that are number driven, results mapping is story-based. Program staff are challenged to relate their most successful work with clients in structured formats that, in turn, are translated into outcome scores and related program measures. An invaluable tool for professionals, researchers and students who need to demonstrate outcomes for complex and difficult to evaluate programs.

Table of Contents

Part I Theory
A Different Kind of Evaluation	3	(10)
Why Success Stories?	13	(16)
The Results Ladder	29	(16)
Terminology and Key Mapping Concepts	45	(18)
What the Mapped Data Show	63	(10)
Part II Practice
How to Score a Results Map	73	(16)
Examples of Mapped Stories	89	(44)
Graphing	133	(10)
Glossary of Key Terms	141	(2)
Appendix A Answers to the Quizzes	143	(22)
Appendix B Summary of Rules and Conventions	165	(6)
Appendix C Questionnaire for Compiling Story Data	171	(2)
Appendix D Blank Mapping Forms	173	(4)
References	177	(2)
Index	179