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The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator's Companion
Top Insights
New York: Guilford Press (2025), xvii, 606 pp.
"This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled experts, the Handbook has a unique focus on the c
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Evaluation Roots: Theory Influencing Practice
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2023), ix, 318 pp.
"Showing how evaluation practice looks when guided by theory, the third edition of the influential "theory tree" book is significantly revised with over 80% new material, including a greater focus on equity and theories over theorists. Chapters from leading authorities describe the goals of each the
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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
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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
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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
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Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 4th ed. (2015), xl, 864 pp.
"The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Neatly integrating authoritative, high-level information with practicality and readability, this guide gives you the tools and process
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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
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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
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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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Qualitative Evaluation Checklist
Western Michigan University, Evaluation Center (2003), 18 pp.
"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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La cartographie des indicenes: Intégrer l'apperentissage et la réflexion dans les programmes de développement
Michael Quinn Patton (introd.)
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2002), 143 pp.
Utilization-Focused Evaluation in Africa: Evaluation Training Lectures Delivered to the Inaugural Conference of the African Evaluation Association, 13-17 September, Nairobi
Prudence Nkinda Chaiban (ed.)
Nairobi: UNICEF (1999), 46 pp.
Practical Evaluation
London: Sage (1982), 318 pp.
