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Overview
"A text for evaluation designed to take students from no knowledge to a working knowledge in one book, Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches offers a practical, up-to-date overview of evaluation processes relevant to both beginners and practitioners." "Everyone involved with policy and program development and delivery is being asked to plan more carefully, reflect more critically and justify their decisions. Based on an original integrated framework, the authors show how evaluation can be used to support program planning, improve program delivery, and determine program impact." "This new International Edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to accommodate recent evaluation practice with international examples." Program Evaluation is an essential reference for students, researchers, consultants and professional evaluators in both the public and private sectors.Synopsis
Thoroughly revised to incorporate recent research on evaluation and new examples of good practice in the United States and around the world, Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, monitoring, and impact. Retaining the issues-driven perspective that made previous editions so popular, the third edition includes a new chapter on evaluation management and new sections on negotiation theory, evidence-based practice, performance auditing and management, and realistic evaluation.