Evaluation Practice How To Do Good Evaluation Research In Work Settings [Paperback]

Professional accountability has become central to both public and private sectors. Governments have emphasized and even developed empirical models, logic modeling, and evidence-based practice in the programs they support, and not-for-profit, for-profit and NGO entities increasingly rely on systematic strategies such as strategic planning, marketing research, outcome measures, and benchmarking to identify needs and determine success.

Evaluation Practice bridges the apparent gap between practice and research to present a logical, systematic model to guide all professional thinking and action within the context  of everyday professional life. Their framework embraces diverse theories, action, and sets of evidence from a range of professional and disciplinary perspectives.

Section 1: Beginnings&nbsp; 1. Introduction to Evaluation Practice: A Problem Solving Approach through Informed Thinking and Action&nbsp; 2. The Conceptual Framework of Evaluation Practice&nbsp; Section 2: Thinking Processes&nbsp;of Evaluation on&nbsp;Practice&nbsp; 3. Identifying Problems and Issues: Mapping and Analyzing your Territory&nbsp; 4. Obtaining and Organizing Information: How Do You Know?&nbsp; 5. Ascertaining Need: What is Needed to Resolve All or Part of the Problem or Issue&nbsp; 6. Examining Need with Previously Supported Approaches: Designing Deductive-Type Inquiry&nbsp; 7. Obtaining Information in Deductive-Type Needs Assessment&nbsp; 8. Ascertaining Need in Unexamined Contexts: Designing Inductive Inquiry&nbsp; 9. Goals and Objectives&nbsp; Section 3: Reflexive Action&nbsp; 10. Reflexive Action: What is it?&nbsp; 11. Thinking Processes of Reflexive Action&nbsp; 12. Action Processes of Reflexive Action&nbsp; Section 4: During&nbsp;and After Professional lc<