RealWorld evaluation
Subtitle: working under budget, time, data, and political constraints
By: Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, Linda Mabry
Contributors: Rugh, Jim; Mabry, Linda
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9781412979627
Subjects: Economic development projects; Evaluation; Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Description: This book addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints and where critical data may be missing. The book is organized around a seven-step model developed by the authors, which has been tested and refined in workshops and in practice. Vignettes and case studies--representing evaluations from a variety of geographic regions and sectors--demonstrate adaptive possibilities for small projects with budgets of a few thousand dollars to large-scale, long-term evaluations of complex programs. The text incorporates quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs, and this Second Edition reflects important developments in the field since the publication of the First Edition. -- publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.