Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations - Hardcover

Torres, Rosalie T.; Preskill, Hallie; Piontek, Mary E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803959265 ISBN 13: 9780803959262

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Synopsis

What communicating and reporting strategies best serve individual and organizational learning? How can these strategies be implemented? This book answers these questions by providing a model for doing evaluation in a way that helps individuals and organizations grow and improve. It will be invaluable to evaluators in facilitating individual, team and organizational learning by communicating and reporting more effectively. As well as illustrating the steps to improving communication through all phases of an evaluation - from planning to the final report and follow-up - the book also provides practical tips and useful examples.

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Review:

[This is] a book that addresses some of the overlooked, taken-for-granted aspects involved with the planning, conducting, and reporting of good evaluation. This book helps evaluators improve the utilization of evaluation results by using an ongoing, integrative collaborative learning approach with project stakeholders. Through the use of collaborative techniques and emphasis on various communicating and reporting formats, evaluators gain knowledge and skills that will assist them in helping organizations learn, grow, and improve. (Steven R. Aragon)

This is among the most thorough and practically applicable texts written about communicating and reporting evaluation findings. The additions of the new sections in this edition reflect the changing nature of work-related communication in general, of which evaluators need to be aware and take advantage. This is a significant contribution to our practice. (Jennifer Martineau)

"Rosalie Torres, Hallie Preskill and Mary Piontek have furnished a text that is not only thorough, but also easily accessible to both the beginner and the experienced practitioner alike.  Not only are they masters at writing with jargon-free clarity, what they have to say demonstrates their apparent underlying methodological grasp of the field.  They have succeeded in practicing what they preach." (John Scougall 2008-09-19)

About the Author:

Rosalie T. Torres, Ph.D. is President of Torres Consulting Group, an evaluation and management consulting firm that specializes in the feedback-based development of programs and organizations.  Formerly, she was the Director of Research, Evaluation, and Organizational Learning at the Developmental Studies Center (DSC), an educational, nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California. She earned her Ph.D. in research and evaluation in 1989 from the University of Illinois.  Over the past 27 years, she has conducted more than 60 evaluations in education, business, health care, and nonprofit organizations, holding both internal and external evaluator positions.  She has authored/coauthored numerous books and articles articulating practice-based theories of evaluation use; the relationship between evaluation and individual, team, and organizational learning; and communicating and reporting evaluation findings.  Among them are Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (Preskill & Torres, 1999) and Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations (Torres, Preskill, & Piontek, 1996).  She is a recent past Board Member of the American Evaluation Association, and served as the Staff Director for the 1994 revision of the Joint Committee’s Program Evaluation Standards.  She has taught graduate level research and evaluation courses at Western Michigan University and the University of Colorado (Denver and Colorado Springs campuses), and routinely conducts workshops on various topics related to evaluation practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0803959265
• ISBN 13: 9780803959262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288