Success in Evaluation
Subtitle: Focusing on the Positives
By: Rudi Turksema
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781315130422
Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs); Social planning; Evaluation; Social service; Planification sociale; Évaluation; Service social
Description: "Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use. This book offers many different lessons on how to improve evaluation design, research processes, and reporting. It is a realistic look at performance management, the evidence movement, and the demand barriers that so often block the role evaluators can play in organizational learning and decision-making. International case studies and lessons are included that both explain success-oriented methods and share insightful lessons from the real world. Together, they present a convincing case that evaluation for success allows for increased constructive interaction amongst both stakeholders and evaluators and, as a result, learning processes and outcomes will improve."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction; title: part Part One: Evaluative Approaches to Find Success; title: chapter 2 Positive Thinking and Learning from Evaluation; title: chapter 3 Structuring Evaluations and Monitoring for Learning; title: chapter 4 Using Big Data to Identify Success; title: chapter 5 What Public Sector Organizations Can Learn from the Private Sector Evaluative Practices: The Case of the Balanced Scorecard; title: chapter 6 Focusing on Success: A Review of Everyday Practices of Organizational Learning in Public Administration; title: part Part Two: Case Studies in Finding Success; title: chapter 7 Building on Success to Succeed: The Role of Evaluation in Evidence-Based Policymaking in Denmark; title: chapter 8 Managing Evaluative Knowledge: The Case of Mothers' Aid; title: chapter 9 Indicators of Success: Using Information and Learning to Support an Effective Performance Audit Function; title: chapter 10 Conditions for Evaluation Success in the Education Sector; title: chapter 11 Sustaining the Success of Sustainable Road Safety: The Contributions of Responsive Evaluation and Performance Indicators; title: chapter 12 The Power of Positive Evaluation: Bridging Evaluative Inquiry, Learning, and Success.