Evaluation Failures (eBook)

22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned

Kylie Hutchinson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2018
184 Seiten
Sage Publications, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5443-2001-4 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Foreword - Michael Quinn Patton
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. MANAGE THE EVALUATION
Chapter 1. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Value of Addressing Conflict Head On - Corey Newhouse
Chapter 2. The Scope Creep Train Wreck: How Responsive Evaluation Can Go Off the Rails - E. Jane Davidson
Chapter 3. The Buffalo Jump: Lessons After the Fall - Gail Vallance Barrington
Chapter 4. Evaluator Self-Evaluation: When Self-Flagellation Is Not Enough - Emma Williams
PART II. ENGAGE STAKEHOLDERS
Chapter 5. That Alien Feeling: Engaging All Stakeholders in the Universe - Hallie Preskill
Chapter 6. Seeds of Failure: How the Evaluation of a West African Agricultural Scale Up Project Went Awry - Thomas Archibald
Chapter 7. I Didn’t Know I Would Be a Tightrope Walker Someday: Balancing Evaluator Responsiveness and Independence - Rakesh Mohan
Chapter 8. When National Pride Is Beyond Facts: Navigating Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements - Felix Muramutsa
PART III. BUILD EVALUATION CAPACITY
Chapter 9. Stars in Our Eyes: What Happens When Things Are Too Good to Be True - Jara Dean-Coffey
PART IV. DESCRIBE THE PROGRAM
Chapter 10. A “Failed” Logic Model: How I Learned to Connect With All Stakeholders - Chris Lovato
Chapter 11. Lost Without You: A Lesson in System Mapping and Engaging Stakeholders - Kylie Hutchinson
PART V. FOCUS THE EVALUATION DESIGN
Chapter 12. You Got to Know When to Hold ’Em: An Evaluation That Went From Bad to Worse - Robert P. Shepherd
Chapter 13. The Evaluation From Hell: When Evaluators and Clients Don’t Quite Fit - Marla Steinberg
PART VI. GATHER CREDIBLE EVIDENCE
Chapter 14. The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Evaluators: Dealing With Data Collection Surprises in the Field - Jan Noga
Chapter 15. Are You My Amigo, or My Chero? The Importance of Cultural Competence in Data Collection and Evaluation - Isaac D. Castillo
Chapter 16. OMG, Why Can’t We Get the Data? A Lesson in Managing Evaluation Expectations - Jennifer Bisgard and Mary Pat Selvaggio
Chapter 17. No, Actually, This Project Has to Stop Now: Learning When to Pull the Plug - Karen Snyder
Chapter 18. Missing in Action: How Assumptions, Language, History, and Soft Skills Influenced a Cross-Cultural Participatory Evaluation - Susan Igras
PART VII. JUSTIFY CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 19. “This Is Highly Illogical”: How a Spock Evaluator Learns That Context and Mixed Methods Are Everything - Benoît Gauthier
Chapter 20. The Ripple That Became a Splash: The Importance of Context and Why I Now Do Data Parties - Diana Tindall
Chapter 21. The Voldemort Evaluation: How I Learned to Survive Organizational Dysfunction, Confusion, and Distrust - Lisa O’Reilly
PART VIII. REPORT AND ENSURE USE
Chapter 22. The Only Way Out Is Through - Stephanie Evergreen
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2018
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned • evaluator • Program evaluation
• ISBN-10: 1-5443-2001-9 / 1544320019
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5443-2001-4 / 9781544320014