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Evaluation for the 21st century : a resource book / editors, Eleanor Chelimsky, William R. Shadish.

Contributor(s): Chelimsky, Eleanor | Shadish, William R.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997Description: xiii, 542 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0761906118 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 9780761906117; 9780761906100.Subject(s): Evaluation research (Social action programs) | Evaluation | General | Business & Management | Social forecasting, future studies | Social research & statistics | Research methods: generalDDC classification: 001.4 CHE Summary: In this comprehensive, landmark volume, an international team of evaluation practitioners explores various areas relating to the subject, including the methodological tools for evaluation, expansion into new areas, and evaluation in the 21st century.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What methodological tools have been most useful in doing evaluation? What are some of the new methodologies that are being used and developed? Will the types of things evaluated expand from programs, personnel, and products to foreign aid, medical technology, environmental interventions, and World Bank loan programs? What will evaluation be like in the 21st century? These impressive evaluators from around the globe explore how evaluation has come to be what it is today and what the professional evaluation landscape will be like in the future. They examine the following:

-What makes evaluation different from other disciplines?

-The links and differences between evaluation and auditing professions?

-Which activities have priority in evaluation, under what circumstances, and for what purposes?

-New methodological approaches to doing evaluation.

-The issues of advocacy versus truth in evaluation and between evaluating programs versus empowering people to evaluate their own programs.

Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators′ chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.

A stunning achievement, Evaluation for the 21st Century is for all professionals and practitioners in evaluation, management, public administration, sociology, psychology, education research, public health, and nursing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this comprehensive, landmark volume, an international team of evaluation practitioners explores various areas relating to the subject, including the methodological tools for evaluation, expansion into new areas, and evaluation in the 21st century.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • The Coming Transformations in Evaluation
  • Part 1 Evaluation: Yesterday And Today
  • Lessons Learned in Evaluation over the Past 25 Years
  • The Political Environment of Evaluation and What It Means for the Development of the Field
  • Part 2 Auditing And Evaluation
  • Evaluation as an Essential Component of 'Value-for-Money'
  • Auditing and Evaluation in Sweden
  • Performance Auditing
  • Traveler's Tales
  • Evaluation and Auditing in State Legislatures
  • Meeting the Client's Needs
  • Part 3 Performance Measurement And Evaluation
  • Trends in Performance Measurement
  • Challenges for Evaluators
  • Performance Measurement in the United Kingdom (1985-1995)
  • Part 4 International Evaluation
  • Evaluating Global Issues in a Community Setting
  • The Development of Evaluation in the People's Republic of China
  • Critical Comments on Evaluation Research in Denmark
  • Evaluation, Markets, and Institutions in the Reform Agenda of Developing Countries
  • Evaluation in the World Bank
  • Antecedents, Instruments, and Concepts
  • Part 5 New Topics For Evaluation
  • Evaluating Human Rights Violations
  • Lessons of Immigration Policy and the Role of Research
  • Tracing Gender Issues through Institutional Change and Program Implementation at the World Bank
  • Understanding the Impact of Development Projects on Women
  • The Tunisia Institutional Development Fund Project
  • The Analysis and Evaluation of Foreign Aid
  • Evaluating the US Nuclear Triad
  • Evaluation, Nuclear Power Plant Remediation and Redesign and Russian Policy Making after Chernobyl
  • The Independent Evaluation of the Global Environment Facility Pilot Phase
  • Environmental Changes and Their Measurement
  • What Data Should We Collect and What Collaborative Systems Do We Need for Linking Knowledge to Action?
  • Part 6 A Sampler Of The Current Methodological Toolkit
  • Multimethod Evaluations
  • Using Case Studies together with Other Methods
  • Cross-Design Synthesis
  • Concept and Application
  • Research Synthesis for Public Health Policy
  • Experience of the Institute of Medicine
  • Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education
  • Cluster Evaluation
  • An Introduction to Scientific Realist Evaluation
  • Single-Case Evaluation in British Social Services
  • Twenty-One Years Old and Counting
  • The Interrupted Time-Series Comes of Age
  • Part 7 An Enduring Argument About The Purpose Of Evaluation
  • Advocacy in Evaluation
  • A Necessary Evil?
  • Truth and Objectivity in Evaluation