Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability
Los Angeles; London; New Delhi: Sage (2021), xxvi, 553 pp.
Contains illustrations, glossary pp. 505-516, bibliogr. pp. 517-542, index
ISBN 978-1-5443-4816-2; 1-5443-4816-9; 9781544348186; 9781544348193; 9781544348179
Signature commbox: 00-Management-E 2021
"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equal appreciation of both the art (for example engaging stakeholders, communicating across diverse settings, recruiting participants) and science (writing questions that matter, using credible designs, data analysis) of evaluation planning, implementation, and dissemination. This textbook will help students recognize that all populations are diverse, and that high quality evaluations need to pay attention to the diversity of all populations being served." (Publisher description)
1 Evaluations of Future: Inclusive, Equity-Focused, Useful, and Used, 1
2 Evaluation Ethics and Quality Standards, 27
3 Historical Evolution of Program Evaluation Through a Social Justice Lens, 65
4 Evaluation Paradigms, Theories, and Models, 107
5 Social Justice and Evaluation: Theories, Challenges, Frameworks, and Paradigms, 135
6 Evaluation Types With a Cultural and Racial Equity Lens, 169
7 Social Programming, Social Justice, and Evaluation, 205
8 Responsive Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization of the Evaluation Process, 243
9 Planning the Evaluation, 273
10 Evaluation Questions That Matter, 303
11 Selecting Appropriate Evaluation Designs, 325
12 Defining, Collecting, and Managing Data, 353
13 The Best Analysis for the Data, 385
14 Reporting, Disseminating, and Utilizing Evaluation Results, 415
15 Evaluation as a Business, 449
16 Interconnections and Practical Implications, 477
2 Evaluation Ethics and Quality Standards, 27
3 Historical Evolution of Program Evaluation Through a Social Justice Lens, 65
4 Evaluation Paradigms, Theories, and Models, 107
5 Social Justice and Evaluation: Theories, Challenges, Frameworks, and Paradigms, 135
6 Evaluation Types With a Cultural and Racial Equity Lens, 169
7 Social Programming, Social Justice, and Evaluation, 205
8 Responsive Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization of the Evaluation Process, 243
9 Planning the Evaluation, 273
10 Evaluation Questions That Matter, 303
11 Selecting Appropriate Evaluation Designs, 325
12 Defining, Collecting, and Managing Data, 353
13 The Best Analysis for the Data, 385
14 Reporting, Disseminating, and Utilizing Evaluation Results, 415
15 Evaluation as a Business, 449
16 Interconnections and Practical Implications, 477
