Evaluation Essentials, Second Edition: From A to Z

Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Reform, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "The strengths of this book are many. The easy-to-read, jargon-free language makes the book very accessible for novice evaluators. It covers virtually all the topics that a prospective evaluator is likely to run into in practice. Many evaluation texts are pedantic, but not this one, which has a lively, conversational style. The case study exercises throughout the book help bring the concepts to life for students, and provide teachers with discussion questions for class participation."--Jill Anne Chouinard, PhD, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "I will c

*Revised case study with extended exercises that guide the reader to complete a simulated evaluation.    New to This Edition *New and expanded topics: evaluation contracts, budgeting, surveys, data visualization, qualitative coding and memoing, factors affecting evaluation use, and context-sensitive evaluation. In 26 concise sections, the book describes how to articulate answerable evaluation questions, collect and analyze data using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and deal with contingencies that might alter the traditional sequence of an evaluation. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text has given thousands of students and new evaluators the practical information and expert advice needed to conduct or use evaluations.