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Gail Vallance Barrington is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and a certified teacher. During her 35 years as owner and manager of an independent consulting company, she completed over 130 evaluation studies, mainly in education, health, and research. She has authored articles, book chapters, and the popular book, Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE, 2012). She has served on the boards of both the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Awards include the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award (2008) and the AEA Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice (2016). She is a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2018) and the Certified Management Consultants of Canada (2014). She holds degrees from McGill University (BA), Carleton University (MA) and the University of Alberta (PhD in Educational Administration). She teaches research and evaluation skills online for Michigan State University and the University of Alberta. For more information see www.barringtonresearchgrp.com. Beverly Triana-Tremain has at least 35 years of public health teaching and consulting experience. Her areas of expertise are public health, evaluation, and quality improvement. Currently, she serves as Epidemiologist with the University of Oklahoma. As part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC), she supports the preventionist workforce in changing community risk factors for substance misuse and mental health disorders. She received her Bachelor of Science at Texas A & M University - Commerce, a Master of Science at Texas Woman's University in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Community Health Studies also at Texas Woman's University. She holds a certification in Lean Six Sigma as a Green Belt and is a fellow in the National Public Health Leadership Institute. In 2006, she established Public Health Consulting, LLC to assist agencies in improving the public health system For more information see www.publichealthconsulting.net.

Part 1 Fundamentals of Evaluation Chapter 1 The Scope of Evaluation Chapter 2 How Evaluators Think Chapter 3 Program Logic Part 2 Evaluation and the Program Life Cycle Chapter 4 Pre- and Early Program Evaluation Chapter 5 Mid-Cycle Program Evaluation Chapter 6 End of Cycle Program Evaluation Part 3 Evaluation Methods Chapter 7 Using Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Chapter 8 Using Qualitative Methods in Evaluation Chapter 9 Using Mixed Methods in Evaluation Part 4 Communicating about Evaluation Chapter 10 The Evaluation Plan Chapter 11 Communication, Reporting, and Use Chapter 12 Evaluation Context and the Evaluator's New Stance

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