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Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Key Guidance
Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 5th ed. (2022), xxiv, 406 pp.
"The Fifth Edition of the bestselling 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation' provides expert, detailed advice on conducting evaluations that promote effective use of the findings. Chock full of useful pedagogy, this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than forty years o
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Evaluation Flash Cards: Embedding Evaluative Thinking in Organizational Culture
Quick Overview
St. Paul, Minnesota: Otto Bremer Trust (2017), 28 pp.
"As part of our ongoing work to strengthen our support for communities, the trustees and staff of the Otto Bremer Trust engaged in a series of learning seminars on evaluation. In order to make the core concepts easily accessible and retrievable, we asked Michael Quinn Patton, who led the seminars, t
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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice. The Definitive Text of Qualitative Inquiry Frameworks and Options
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 4th ed. (2015), xxi, 806 pp.
"Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, author Michael Quinn Patton has crafted the most comprehensive and systematic book on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today.
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Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xxii, 461 pp.
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed 'essentials' book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that actually get used. This book integrates both theory and practice and is not only based
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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
New York: Guilford Press (2011), xxi, 373 pp.
"Developmental evaluation offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a developmental evaluation framework. Patton draws
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Advocacy Impact Evaluation
Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, volume 5, issue 9 (2008), pp. 1-10
"Advocacy and policy change evaluations focus on policy as the unit of analysis rather than the more traditional program or project. There is growing interest in this form of evaluation as evidenced by a new American Evaluation Association Topical Interest Group with this focus. Julia Coffman (2007)
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"The purposes of this checklist are to guide evaluators in determining when qualitative methods are appropriate for an evaluative inquiry and factors to consider (1) to select qualitative approaches that are particularly appropriate for a given evaluation’s expected uses and answer the evaluation
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Practical Evaluation
London: Sage (1982), 318 pp.
