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You're about to start your first evaluation project. Where do you begin? Or you're a practicing evaluator faced with a challenging situation. How do you proceed? How do you handle the interactive components and processes inherent in evaluation practice?
Use Interactive Evaluation Practice to bridge the gap between the theory of evaluation and its practice. Taking an applied approach, this book provides readers with specific interactive skills needed in different evaluation settings and contexts. The authors illustrate multiple options for developing skills and choosing strategies, systematically highlighting the evaluator's three roles as decision maker, actor, and reflective practitioner. Case studies and interactive examples stimulate thinking about how to apply interactive skills across a variety of evaluation situations.
“From beginning to end, this book is an indispensable resource for those responsible for the evaluation process. In essence, here's a chance to learn from masters about acquiring mastery. What could be more useful?” Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
“At long last, a book that explicitly addresses the importance of interpersonal dynamics in evaluation practice!” Hallie Preskill, Executive Director, Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center, FSG
“As an evaluator who frequently interacts with a variety of stakeholders and who provides graduate-level evaluation training, I find Interactive Evaluation Practice to be an exceptional addition to the evaluation literature and a useful guide to interacting with various stakeholder groups.” Chris L. S. Coryn, Western Michigan University
Creating a Viable Interactive Evaluation Process
Creating a Viable Interactive Evaluation Process
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- Review foundations for creating a viable interactive evaluation process
- Identify five components that influence the viability of interactive evaluation practice (IEP)
- Prescribe up-front planning and actions that evaluators can take to attend to each component
- Describe how to use an interactive evaluation process to build evaluation capacity within programs and organizations
- Explain the importance of ongoing assessment and adjustment of the interactive evaluation process
- Apply the IEP principles to creating a viable interactive evaluation process
Introduction
Imagine a charmed evaluation. The clients understand the evaluation process and happily arrange sessions with key stakeholders to frame issues and questions. No one feels threatened; participants are open to multiple possibilities and eager to attend multiple meetings. They easily agree on a focus and approach. Resources flow. The ...
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