Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Michael Quinn Patton, August 2011. Sage publications Publisher's description: "Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, ...

Making Evaluations Matter: a Practical Guide for Evaluators.

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Authors: Cecile Kusters with Simone van Vugt, Seerp Wigboldus, Bob Williams and Jim Woodhill. 2011 “Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little being done to bring about change within organisations that requested the evaluation in the first place. This guide will explain how you can make your ...

UK Evaluation Society 2010 Annual Evaluation Conference

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Evaluation in a turbulent world: Challenges, opportunities and innovation in evaluation practice Date: 22-23 November 2010 Venue: Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham Abstracts are now invited for this year's UKES Annual Evaluation Conference. The on-line submission form is available via the conference website www.profbriefings.co.uk/ukes2010 The closing date for receipt of submissions is 13 August ...

Utilization-focused evaluation for agricultural innovation

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton and Douglas Horton ILAC Brief No 22 Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) is based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged by its utility. So no matter how technically sound and methodologically elegant, an evaluation is not truly a good evaluation unless the findings are used. UFE is a ...

The utilisation of evaluations.

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Chapter 3:ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action in 2005 Peta Sandison This chapter draws upon a literature review, four case studies of evaluation utilisation volunteered by CAFOD, MSF(H), OCHA and USAID, semi-structured interviews with 45 evaluators, evaluation managers and evaluation ‘users’, a review of 30 sets of terms of reference, and an electronic survey sent to ...