Success in Evaluation: Focusing on the Positives (Comparative Policy Evaluation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412855683 ISBN 13: 9781412855686

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use.

This book offers many different lessons on how to improve evaluation design, research processes, and reporting. It is a realistic look at performance management, the evidence movement, and the demand barriers that so often block the role evaluators can play in organizational learning and decision-making.

International case studies and lessons are included that both explain success-oriented methods and share insightful lessons from the real world. Together, they present a convincing case that evaluation for success allows for increased constructive interaction amongst both stakeholders and evaluators and, as a result, learning processes and outcomes will improve.

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Rudi Turksema

Edition details

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412855683
• ISBN 13: 9781412855686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Nielsen Steffen Bohni, Turksema Rudi, Knapp Peter Van Der