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Being an Evaluator

Your Practical Guide to Evaluation
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Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendly, conversational style. She focuses not just on how to do evaluations but how to think like an evaluator, fostering reflective, ethical, and culturally sensitive practice. Extensive case examples illustrate the process of conceptualizing and implementing an evaluation--clarifying interventions, identifying beneficiaries, gathering data, discussing results, valuing, and developing recommendations. The differences (and connections) between research, evaluation, and monitoring are explored. Handy icons identify instructive features including self-study exercises, group activities, clarifying questions, facilitation and negotiation techniques, insider tips, advice, and resources. Purchasers can access a companion website to download and print reproducible materials for some of the activities and games described in the book.
I. Doing Evaluation and Thinking Evaluatively 1. Speaking the Language 2. The Tale of the Researcher and Evaluator 3. Starting the Evaluative Journey 4. How We Know What We Know and Why We Think That 5. Data and Credibility: What Inquiring Evaluator Minds Need to Know 6. Linking Problem Statements, Interventions, and Results 7. All About Results 8. Talking Intervention Theory (and Logic) 9. Assessing and Evaluating Progress 10. Completing the Evaluation Journey: Pulling It All Together II. Being an Evaluator 11. The Personal Choices of Being an Evaluator 12. Thinking About Values 13. Evaluation: It Is So Much More Than Methods 14. The Scholarly Side of Being an Evaluator 15. Navigating the Maze of Evaluation Choices 16. The World of Recommendations 17. The Dirty Laundry Chapter Epilogue
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