Practical Program Evaluation

Conventional and Contemporary Approaches

Key Features and Benefits:

- Focuses on the intervention program life cycle—from program planning to initial implementation, mature implementation, program alignment, outcome, and dissemination—and provides guidance on evaluation at each stage.

·       - Covers both traditional and cutting-edge evaluation perspectives and processes, showing how evaluators can do better evaluations if they are familiar and competent in all areas.

·       - Is pedagogically driven: the book provides a set of principles for making the best choices in the variety of evaluation situations that evaluators encounter, it includes rich examples of applications, and includes end-of-chapter reflection questions. 

New to the Third Edition:

·       - Provides guidance on evaluation at all six stages of the evaluation process: shows how evaluators can work with stakeholders to identify the program stage or stages for evaluation.

·       - Recognizing that there are two types of intervention programs operating in communities—evidence-based and community-based—this edition provides different sets of theories and approaches for evaluating these two types of programs.