Purposeful Evaluation

A Practical Guide to Design, Development and Delivery

David Parsons (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2025
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7613-2 (ISBN)

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This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation.

With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills. This book addresses those gaps, offering step-by-step guidance on designing and delivering fit-for-purpose evaluations to maximise their use and utility. Taking a holistic approach to the evaluation journey, it covers key challenges such as engaging stakeholders, managing expectations and handling resource pressures.

With real-world case studies and practical tools, this is an essential resource for practitioners across public, academic and voluntary sectors.

David Parsons is a programme evaluator with over 30 years’ experience of independent public policy analysis in the UK, Europe and internationally. He is also Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University, Principal Consultant at P&A Research and Consulting, and Programme Lead for evaluation practitioner training at the UK’s Social Research Association.

Part 1: Starting Points

1. Why purposeful evaluation?

Part 2: Setting the Foundations

2. Defining the purpose

3. Managing evaluation objectives and expectations

4. Managing the ethical dimension

Part 3: Choosing the Right Method

5. Understanding the choices

6. Process evaluation

7. Economic evaluation

8. Fully experimental impact evaluation

9. Quasi-experimental impact evaluation

10. Theory-based impact evaluation

11. Meta-evaluation

Part 4: Putting it in Place: Preparation into Delivery

12. Preparation and groundwork

13. Managing challenges and delivery

Part 5: Presenting and Mobilising Evidence

14. Delivering the evidence

15. Optimising evaluation influence

Erscheinungsdatum	25.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-4473-7613-7 / 1447376137
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7613-2 / 9781447376132
Zustand	Neuware