Practical Program Evaluation: Theory-Driven Evaluation and the Integrated Evaluation Perspective

Chen, Huey T. (Tsyh)

ISBN 10: 1412992303 / ISBN 13: 9781412992305

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2014

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Practical Program Evaluation: Theory-Driven Evaluation and the Integrated Evaluation Perspective
• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1412992303
• ISBN-13: 9781412992305
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches suitable for use across a program’s life cycle. At the core of program evaluation is its body of concepts, theories, and methods. This revised edition provides an overview of these, and includes expanded coverage of both introductory and more cutting-edge techniques within six new chapters. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples that bring the material to life, the Second Edition provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator’s toolbox. 

New to this edition:

• A new comprehensive evaluation typology in Chapter 2 helps readers systematically identify stakeholders’ needs and select the evaluation options best suited to those needs.
• A new Part V, Advanced Issues in Program Evaluation, includes three new chapters that help readers understand challenging issues and innovative approaches, and enhance their competencies in applying them.
• Coverage of cutting-edge evaluation perspectives and approaches, including the Action Model/Change Model Schema, helps readers think "outside the box."
• New chapters introduce the innovative holistic effectuality approach as an alternative to the traditional experimentation evaluation approach for conducting real-world outcome evaluation and expand the scope of evaluation from effectuality to viability and transferability.
• A new Chapter 14 explores the relative strengths and limitations of formal theories versus stakeholder theories.
• A new Chapter 15 compares two approaches to evaluation and dissemination: the top-down approach versus the bottom-up approach.
• The more complex evaluation theories presented in later chapters are presented in accessible language and illustrated with interesting real-world examples.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Huey T. Chen has been a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2002.  He was born and raised in Taiwan.  Dr. Chen worked at the University of Akron until 1997, when he joined the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the chief of an evaluation branch. Dr. Chen had taken a leadership role in designing and implementing a national evaluation system for assessing the CDC funded HIV prevention programs, which are based in health departments and community organizations.  Dr. Chen has contributed to the development of evaluation theory and methodology, especially in the areas of program theory and theory-driven evaluations. His book, Theory-Driven Evaluations, has been recognized as one of the landmarks in program evaluation.  In 1998 he received the Senior Biomedical Research Service Award from the CDC. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for contributions to Evaluation Theory from the American Evaluation Association.