{"product_id":"practicing-evaluation-a-collaborative-approach-9780761925460","title":"Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Rita grounds her collaborative work in the American Evaluation Associations Guiding Principles  situates it within its Collaborative  Participatory  and Empowerment Evaluation Topical Interest Group  and discusses it within the confines of the evaluation literature. Sounds like sound evaluation to me.\" David Fetterman  Past-President  American Evaluation Association and Director of Evaluation  Stanford University When stakeholders collaborate with evaluators  their understanding increases and the utility of the evaluation is often enhanced. With over 20 years of evaluation experience  author Rita OSullivan has created an approach that actively engages program stakeholders in the evaluation process. Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach contains strategies and techniques for conducting successful collaborative evaluations in a variety of program settings  including education  family support  health  and non-profit organizations. Although many evaluation textbooks cover the theory and steps of an evaluation  they do not often include specifics regarding how to put these concepts into actual practice in a real-world setting  such as a school district or business. Using actual cases from educational  health  and business settings  OSullivan shows readers how to better involve stakeholders in the evaluation process. Key Features  A chapter on to how to design program evaluations with a collaborative approach  Checklists within the chapters and end-of-chapter exercises that give readers the opportunity to practice what theyve learned  Boxed examples that provide snapshots of other evaluations and highlight effective evaluation techniques and collaborative evaluation practices  Excerpts from the two most widely cited sources covering professional ethical standards (the American Evaluation Association Guidelines for Professional Practice and the Joint Committee Standards for Educational Program Evaluation)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651934281781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0761925465","price":134.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780761925460.jpg?v=1781846026","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/practicing-evaluation-a-collaborative-approach-9780761925460","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}