Evaluation Management: How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter helps evaluation teams and commissioners achieve results that meet utilization and organizational learning goals and inform positive change for programs and communities. Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas and E. Jane Davidson provide insights on both the tactical and strategic levels of evaluation management, using approaches and skills from project management, administration and logistics, budgeting, team management, leadership development, communication, coaching, systems thinking, and negotiation. They also demonstrate how intentionality for equity, sustainability and culturally responsive practices is essential for ensuring an evaluation’s relevance and enhancing productive stakeholder engagement. With plenty of practical guidance from many years of experience, the authors provide a valuable resource for student readers, experienced evaluators, and commissioners of evaluation.
Daftar Isi
Chapter 1. Overview Of Evaluation Management
Chapter 2. Commissioning Great Evaluations
Chapter 3. Pre-Start Up: Analyzing the Evaluation Requirements
Chapter 4. Managing The Evaluation Contract Start-Up
Chapter 5. Managing The Evaluation Team
Chapter 6. Managing Data Collection
Chapter 7. Managing Data Analysis
Chapter 8. Managing Evaluation Reporting
Chapter 9: Managing Evaluation Use and Influence
Chapter 10. Building Evaluation Management Capacity for Evaluation Commissioners
References
Index
Tentang Penulis
E. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for drawing conclusions about quality and value. She has also made significant contributions in the areas of causal inference for qualitative and mixed methods, and in synthesis methodologies for evaluation.Dr. Davidson is sought after internationally as a speaker and workshop presenter for her signature approach of methodologically robust but refreshingly practical evaluation with breathtaking clarity.She has presented keynotes and invited workshops in the US, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.She is former Associate Director of the internationally recognized Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world’s first fully Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was the 2019 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s prestigious Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award.
Ebook lainnya dari penulis yang sama / Editor
927 Ebooks dalam kategori ini
