Practical Program Evaluation
Theory-Driven Evaluation and the Integrated Evaluation Perspective

Second Edition

Huey T. Chen - Mercer University, USA

Courses:
Evaluation Theory | Program Evaluation | Program Evaluation | Research Methods in Health Psychology

October 2014 | 464 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders’ needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches suitable for use across a program’s life cycle. At the core of program evaluation is its body of concepts, theories, and methods. This revised edition provides an overview of these, and includes expanded coverage of both introductory and more cutting-edge techniques within six new chapters. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples that bring the material to life, the Second Edition provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator’s toolbox.

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PREFACE

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Fundamentals for Program Evaluation

2. Understand Approaches to Evaluation and Select Ones That Work: The Comprehensive Evaluation Typology

3. Logic Models and the Action Model/Change Model Schema (Program Theory)

PART II: PROGRAM EVALUATION TO HELP STAKEHOLDERS DEVELOP A PROGRAM PLAN

4. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Program Scope

5. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Action Plan

PART III: EVALUATING IMPLEMENTATION

6. Constructive Process Evaluation Tailored for the Initial Implementation

7. Assessing Implementation in the Mature Implementation Stage

PART IV: PROGRAM MONITORING AND OUTCOME EVALUATION

8. Program Monitoring and the Development of a Monitoring System

9. Constructive Outcome Evaluations

10. The Experimentation Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation

11. The Holistic Effectuality Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation

12. The Theory-Driven Approach to Outcome Evaluation

PART V: ADVANCED ISSUES IN PROGRAM EVALUATION

13. What to Do if Your Logic Model Does Not Work as Well as Expected

14. Formal Theories Versus Stakeholder Theories in Interventions: Relative Strengths and Limitations

15. Evaluation and Dissemination: Top-Down Approach Versus Bottom-Up Approach

References

Index

Practical Program Evaluation provides an essential conceptual framework to students of social policy, who will find this text invaluable as they embark on their professional career. Its treatment of stakeholders has particular merit in ensuring a successful evaluation process and outcome. The text is highly accessible, and exposes students to a broad array of approaches which will prove useful in different agency settings

Dr Sue Vella

Social Policy & Social Work , University of Malta

August 7, 2015

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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

A new comprehensive evaluation typology in Chapter 2 helps readers systematically identify stakeholders’ needs and select the evaluation options best suited to those needs.
A new Part V, Advanced Issues in Program Evaluation, includes three new chapters that help readers understand challenging issues and innovative approaches, and enhance their competencies in applying them.
Coverage of cutting-edge evaluation perspectives and approaches, including the Action Model/Change Model Schema, helps readers think “outside the box.”
New chapters introduce the innovative holistic effectuality approach as an alternative to the traditional experimentation evaluation approach for conducting real-world outcome evaluation and expand the scope of evaluation from effectuality to viability and transferability.
A new Chapter 14 explores the relative strengths and limitations of formal theories versus stakeholder theories.
A new Chapter 15 compares two approaches to evaluation and dissemination: the top-down approach versus the bottom-up approach.
The more complex evaluation theories presented in later chapters are presented in accessible language and illustrated with interesting real-world examples.

KEY FEATURES:

Illustrative examples from the field and coverage of the methods, procedures, pros, cons, and tradeoffs involved in using various evaluation options help readers put each evaluation approach into action.
The evaluation cycle is covered from start to finish: program planning, initial implementation, mature implementation, and outcomes.
The book highlights both the art and science of program evaluation.

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Theory-Driven Evaluation and the Integrated Evaluation Perspective

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