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Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
Melvin M. Mark
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Description for Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
Hardcover. This book defines the importance of understanding that the theory only becomes useful if the practitioner is given the necessary tools for success. This new approach to evaluation is firmly grounded in realist theory. Series: Nonprofit & Public Management S. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 810.
"This is one of the most coherent and comprehensive theories ofevaluation yet formulated and one that makes a most valuablecontribution. The authors are pioneering in important newdirections."
--Ernest R. House, author of Professional Evaluation and Evaluatingwith Validity
"This book is the best I've ever read detailing a practical theoryof evaluation. It is comprehensive, beautifully written, and makessense of the evaluation enterprise. It does so by emphasizing themajor function of evaluation as sense-making about policies andprograms."
--Thomas D. Cook, professor, sociology, psychology, education, andpublic policy, Northwestern University
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"This is one of the most coherent and comprehensive theories ofevaluation yet formulated and one that makes a most valuablecontribution. The authors are pioneering in important newdirections."
--Ernest R. House, author of Professional Evaluation and Evaluatingwith Validity
"This book is the best I've ever read detailing a practical theoryof evaluation. It is comprehensive, beautifully written, and makessense of the evaluation enterprise. It does so by emphasizing themajor function of evaluation as sense-making about policies andprograms."
--Thomas D. Cook, professor, sociology, psychology, education, andpublic policy, Northwestern University
Programs that serve the needs of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Nonprofit & Public Management S.
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787948023
SKU
V9780787948023
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About Melvin M. Mark
GARY HENRY professor of Public Administration, Political Science, and Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State and co-editor-in-chief of New Directions for Evaluation. MELVIN MARKS professor of psychology at Penn State and editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. GEORGE JULNES assistant professor of Psychology in the Research and Evaluation Methodology at Utah State University. The authors ... Read more
Reviews for Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
"It is a text thoroughly worth the attention of anyone interested in the field of evaluation." (CharityChannel.com, August 4, 2003)