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Building Evaluation Capacity
Activities for Teaching and Training
Second Edition
- Hallie Preskill - FSG Social Impact Advisors
- Darlene F. Russ-Eft - Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, USA
August 2015 | 448 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Second Edition of Building Evaluation Capacity provides 89 highly structured activities which require minimal instructor preparation and encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Ideal for use in program evaluation courses, professional development workshops, and organization stakeholder trainings, the activities cover the entire process of evaluation, including: understanding what evaluation is; the politics and ethics; the influence of culture; various models, approaches and designs; data collection and analysis methods; communicating and reporting progress and findings; and building and sustaining support. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, minimum and maximum number of participants, range of time required, materials needed, primary instructional method, and procedures for facilitators to help learners in the most common evaluation practices.
1. Overview of Evaluation
2. The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation Practice
3. Culture and Evaluation
4. Focusing the Evaluation
5. Evaluation Models, Approaches, and Designs
6. Issues of Validity and Sampling
7. Collecting Evaluation Data
8. Analyzing Evaluation Data
9. Communicating and Reporting Evaluation Processes and Findings
10. Managing the Evaluation
11. Building and Sustaining Support for Evaluation
12. Reflections on Learning
