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Practical Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton 9780803919051
RRP: £126.00Booksplease Price: £112.84Patton demonstrates that the main failing of most evaluations is a lack of practicality. They fail to be cheap, accurate, attuned to the differences between different programmes or to provide useful,... -
Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles by Michael Quinn Patton
Booksplease Price: £65.18As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues. This book... -
Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE Michael Quinn Patton 9781462531820
Booksplease Price: £58.59How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book... -
Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice by Michael Quinn Patton 9781462522972
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £76.32Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to... -
Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice Michael Quinn Patton 9781462522965
Booksplease Price: £48.05Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to... -
Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles by Michael Quinn Patton 9781462541942
Booksplease Price: £43.29As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues. This book... -
Family Sexual Abuse: Frontline Research and Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton 9780803939615
RRP: £126.00Booksplease Price: £112.50In the battle against family sexual abuse, most studies and research findings have examined the problem on a national level--but what about the studies that have been done at the local level? With... -
Grand Canyon Celebration: A Father-Son Journey of Discovery by Michael Quinn Patton 9781573922661
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.91When Brandon was born, Michael Quinn Patton began pondering how best to celebrate the day his son would become a man. As a sociologist, Patton was intrigued with the rich history of coming-of-age... -
Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Michael Quinn Patton 9781606238721
Booksplease Price: £56.58Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority... -
Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton 9781606238868
Booksplease Price: £83.33Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority... -
Personalizing Evaluation by Saville Ian Kushner 9780761963622
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £110.69`A brilliant piece of work, adroitly fitted to the present state of affairs in program evaluation, devoted to a defensible and under-attended proposition - that we should understand programs through... -
Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin by Anne T. Vo 9781681230047
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80This volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field - the use of evaluation information for decision-making. Chapter authors honor the contributions of Professor... -
Evaluation Use and Decision-Making in Society: A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin by Anne T. Vo 9781681230054
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.24This volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field - the use of evaluation information for decision-making. Chapter authors honor the contributions of Professor... -
The SAGE Handbook of Evaluation by Ian Shaw 9781446270554
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.18'This handbook thoroughly covers all aspects of evaluation, yet isn't too technical to understand. It offers everything an organization needs to know to get the most out of evaluation' - Nonprofit... -
The Future of Evaluation in Society: A Tribute to Michael Scriven by Stewart I. Donaldson 9781623964528
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past. It is organized to honor one of the founders and most prolific contributors to the profession and transdiscipline of evaluation --... -
The Future of Evaluation in Society: A Tribute to Michael Scriven by Stewart I. Donaldson 9781623964511
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.06The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past. It is organized to honor one of the founders and most prolific contributors to the profession and transdiscipline of evaluation --... -
Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research by Gareth Morgan 9780803920781
RRP: £126.00Booksplease Price: £113.27Beyond Method provides one of the best reviews of social science research currently available. Morgan has forged his way of thinking about social research into a powerful tool that will interest... -
Everyday Evaluation on the Run: The user-friendly introductory guide to effective evaluation Yoland Wadsworth 9781032440507
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Effective evaluation can provide valuable insights into the way a program, a course or an organisation is being run, and direction for improvement. This widely used introduction to evaluation is... -
Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation: With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger by Apollo M. Nkwake 9783030330033
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs. It suggests simple ways for stakeholders and evaluators to 1)... -
Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems Yoland Wadsworth 9781032440521
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently. Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired... -
The Evaluation Enterprise: A Critical View by Jan-Eric Furubo 9780367666064
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed... -
Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future by Beverly Parsons 9781641138338
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Take a journey to 2030 where Visionary Evaluatives abound and link with one another in actively bringing about a sustainable, equitable future. Utilizing a creative storytelling approach, Visionary... -
Purposeful Program Theory: Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models by Sue C. Funnell 9780470478578
RRP: £78.95Booksplease Price: £69.71Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations,... -
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit by Bob Williams 9780804770637
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field... -
Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice by Annette Gardner 9780804792561
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights from different... -
Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation: 2nd Edition: Planning, Contracting, & Managing for Useful Results by Paul Mattessich 9781684427888
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44Your Guide to Getting a Useful Evaluation, now updated and revised in this second edition. Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help... -
Heuristic Research: Design, Methodology, and Applications by Clark E. Moustakas 9780803938823
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.00"A gem . . . . It is most definitely a work of major significance both historically and methodologically . . . . You've got a classic on your hands. As for me and some of my colleagues . . . you will... -
Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation: With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger by Apollo M. Nkwake 9783030330064
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.16This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs. It suggests simple ways for stakeholders and evaluators to 1)... -
Thought Work: Thinking, Action, and the Fate of the World by Elizabeth K. Minnich 9781538131534
Booksplease Price: £43.76This anthology poses challenges central to Elizabeth Minnich's book The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking to outstanding thought leaders from a wide range of fields. In a... -
Evaluation Essentials, Third Edition: From A to Z Marvin C. Alkin 9781462555444
Booksplease Price: £71.18Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity... -
An Introduction to Qualitative Research: Learning in the Field by Gretchen B. Rossman 9781506307930
Booksplease Price: £87.80The updated Fourth Edition of Rossman and Rallis's popular introductory text leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research, and applied examples... -
Being an Evaluator: Your Practical Guide to Evaluation by Donna R. Podems 9781462537815
Booksplease Price: £77.99Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced... -
Being an Evaluator: Your Practical Guide to Evaluation Donna R. Podems 9781462537808
Booksplease Price: £52.79Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced... -
Guidebook to Community Consulting: A Collaborative Approach by Susan M. Wolfe 9781009244305
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Guidebook to Community Consulting provides advice for people interested in starting or growing a career in community consulting. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as community consultants,... -
Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty: Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable by Jonathan A. Morell 9781606238585
Booksplease Price: £70.93Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in... -
Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty: Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable Jonathan A. Morell 9781606238578
Booksplease Price: £47.75Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in... -
Credible and Actionable Evidence: The Foundation for Rigorous and Influential Evaluations by Stewart I. Donaldson 9781483306254
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £87.80Addressing one of the most important and contentious issues challenging applied research and evaluation practice today-what constitutes credible and actionable evidence?-this volume offers a balanced... -
The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success by Steve Rothschild
Booksplease Price: £16.67A top business leader shares the business principles he used to launch both a top company and a thriving nonprofit Nonprofit leaders know that solving pervasive social problems requires passion and...