Handbook of evaluation
Subtitle: policies, programs and practices
By: edited by Ian F. Shaw, Jennifer C. Greene, Melvin M. Mark.
Contributors: Shaw, Ian, 1945-; Greene, Jennifer C.; Mark, Melvin M.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780761973058
Subjects: Evaluation
Other titles: Sage handbook of evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The evaluation of policies, programs, and practices / Melvin M. Mark, Jennifer C. Greene, and Ian E. Shaw; title: The purposes of evaluation in a democratic society / Eleanor Chelimsky; title: Roles for theory in contemporary evaluation practice : developing practical knowledge / Stewart I. Donaldson and Mark W. Lipsey; title: Evaluation for practice improvement and organizational learning / Patricia J. Rogers and Bob Williams; title: Evaluation and the study of lived experience / Thomas A. Schwandt and Holli Burgon; title: Evaluation, democracy and social change; title: Jennifer C. Greene; title: Evaluation after disenchantment? : five issues shaping the role of evaluation in society / Peter Dahler-Larsen; title: Government as structural context for evaluation / Phil Davies, Kathryn Newcomer, and Haluk Soydan; title: The social relations of evaluation / Tineke A. Abma; title: Intellectual contexts / John Stevenson and David Thomas; title: The relationship between evaluation and politics / Ove Karlsson Vestman and Ross F. Conner; title: Ethics in evaluation / Helen Simons; title: A comparative analysis of evaluation utilization and its cognate fields of inquiry : current issues and trends / J. Bradley Cousins and Lyn M. Shulha; title: Contextual challenges for evaluation practice / Elliot Stern; title: Methods for policy-making and knowledge development evaluations / Melvin M. Mark and Gary T. Henry; title: Embedding improvements, lived experience, and social justice in evaluation practice / Elizabeth Whitmore, Irene Guijt, Donna M. Mertens, Pamela S. Imm, Matthew Chinman and Abraham Wandersman; title: Managing evaluations / Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman; title: Communicating evaluation / Marvin C. Alkin, Christina A. Christie and Mike Rose; title: On discerning quality in evaluation / Robert E. Stake and Thomas A. Schwandt; title: The practice of evaluation : challenges and new directions / Lois-ellin Datta; title: Evaluation in education / David Nevo; title: Evaluation of health services : reflections on practice / Andrew Long; title: Social work and the human services / Ian Shaw, with Carol T Mowbray and Hazel Quershi; title: Evaluation in criminal justice / Nick Tilley and Alan Clarke; title: Evaluation of development interventions and humanitarian action / Osvaldo Fienstein and Tony Beck; title: Evidence-based evaluation in different professional domains : similarities, differences and challenges / Alan Clarke.