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"Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations provides extensive real-life examples of program evaluations that illustrate the various elements and steps in conducting a successful evaluation. The detailed and diverse range of case studies show the common elements, methods, approaches, and processes of program evaluations, while also demonstrating the way that good evaluators adapt and tailor those methods to the specific characteristics and needs of a given program. The chapters explore the process of problem solving while navigating multiple stakeholders, competing agendas, and varying environments. The book introduces conversations concerning how to adapt evaluation processes and concepts with culturally different individuals and communities. It discusses the role of culture in navigating a meaningful evaluation process when significant cultural differences exist between the evaluator and individuals that make up the organization. The text is a vital resource for postgraduate students in program evaluation courses in Psychology, Education, Public Health, Social Work and related fields"--

Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies. ; Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; FY 73-FY 80 in 1 v.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part One: Evaluative Approaches to Find Success -- chapter 2 Positive Thinking and Learning from Evaluation -- chapter 3 Structuring Evaluations and Monitoring for Learning -- chapter 4 Using Big Data to Identify Success -- chapter 5 What Public Sector Organizations Can Learn from the Private Sector Evaluative Practices: The Case of the Balanced Scorecard -- chapter 6 Focusing on Success: A Review of Everyday Practices of Organizational Learning in Public Administration -- part Part Two: Case Studies in Finding Success -- chapter 7 Building on Success to Succeed: The Role of Evaluation in Evidence-Based Policymaking in Denmark -- chapter 8 Managing Evaluative Knowledge: The Case of Mothers{u2019} Aid -- chapter 9 Indicators of Success: Using Information and Learning to Support an Effective Performance Audit Function -- chapter 10 Conditions for Evaluation Success in the Education Sector -- chapter 11 Sustaining the Success of Sustainable Road Safety: The Contributions of Responsive Evaluation and Performance Indicators -- chapter 12 The Power of Positive Evaluation: Bridging Evaluative Inquiry, Learning, and Success.

Program Evaluation in Social Research presents a plan for developing evaluation into a form of applied social research that is not only methodologically sound, but also relevant to the problems of society and built on a technological (as opposed to a scientific) model. This book views evaluation as applied, relevant social research and as social technology and assesses its validity and usefulness. This monograph is comprised of eight chapters and begins with an assessment of the consequences of program evaluation for the conduct of social research and for society at large, and how evaluation c

Foreword / Patricia Rogers -- Introduction / Kim Forss and Ida Lindkvist -- Historians' debates on time and the nature of historical research / Charlotta Forss -- Counting the long-term in evaluation / Jens Andersson -- Contribution analysis and the long-term perspective : challenges and opportunities / John Mayne -- Using a wide lens to take a long view : how integrating systems thinking into evaluations can assist in taking a long-term perspective / Andrew Koleros -- Reforms of local governments in Denmark / Olaf Rieper -- Reform takes time, but politics won't wait : the scope for long-term evaluation in the education sector / Rolf Sandahl and Gustav Jakob Petersson -- Looking from a local place to take the long view in evaluation / Laura Tagle -- Complex development aid evaluations : the aid quality evaluation framework / Mark McGillivray and David Carpenter -- Why take a long view? : how formal and informal rules influence the choice of time perspectives in international development evaluations / Alison Pollard and Ida Lindkvist -- Long-term causal inference / Markus Palenberg -- From measuring impact to understanding change / Kim Forss -- Concluding remarks on evaluating the long-term : it works but can be made to work better! / Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss & Mark McGillivray.

Outcome Mapping recognizes that development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environment. The originality of this approach lies in its shift away from assessing the products of a program to focus on changes in behaviour, relationships, actions, and activities in the people, groups, and organizations it works with directly. In doing so, Outcome Mapping debunks many of the myths about measuring impact. It will help a program be specific about the actors it targets, the changes it expects to see, and the strategies it employs and, as a result, be more effective in term

"Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues. Evaluations that explicitly aim to be more responsive to culture and cultural context are, however, a more recent phenomenon. This book utilizes a conceptual framework that foregrounds culture in social inquiry, and then uses that framework to analyze empirical studies across three distinct cultural domains of evaluation practice (Western, Indigenous and international development). The authors provide a comparative analysis of these studies and discuss lessons drawn from them in order to help evaluators extend their current thinking and practice. They conclude with an agenda for ongoing research in culturally responsive approaches in evaluation"--