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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
The Evaluator Is in Charge: Evaluating a Controversial Shelter Project
The Evaluator Is in Charge: Evaluating a Controversial Shelter Project
Chapter Preview
- Consider interactive evaluation practice (IEP) that entails an evaluator-directed study conducted by an external evaluation consultant
- Examine how basic inquiry tasks and the evaluation capacity building continuum shape decisions in this case
- Reflect on evaluation decisions and actions at various junctures
- Engage in a set of exercises—TIPS (think, interact, practice, situate)—at the end of the case description
- Apply the IEP principles to the evaluator-directed study in this case
Introduction
This chapter describes an evaluator-directed study that an external evaluator conducts in a politically charged environment. The evaluator' client, the head of a city agency, needs a study completed in a timely manner that people will perceive as fair and accurate. Unfortunately, an interpersonal conflict between two intended users, coupled with ...
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