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The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders” needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches suitable for use across a program's life cycle. At the core of program evaluation is its body of concepts, theories, and methods. This revised edition provides an overview of these, and includes expanded coverage of both introductory and more cutting-edge techniques within six new chapters. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples that bring the material to life, the Second Edition provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator's toolbox.
Program Monitoring and the Development of a Monitoring System
Program Monitoring and the Development of a Monitoring System
Stakeholders depend on some basic facts about a program's progress to inform their communication with funding agencies and other interested groups and for ongoing internal administrative purposes. Evaluators can help with the task of preparing to obtain these basic facts on a continual basis, a task called program monitoring. Once a program-monitoring routine has been developed, stakeholders themselves can perform the evaluation going forward. Program monitoring may well be the activity that best demonstrates the usefulness of empowerment evaluation. This is because in helping to launch ongoing program monitoring, evaluators both build the capacity of the program and its stakeholders to collect evaluative data and show ...
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