Do you make evidence-based decisions when designing and conducting evaluations, and use methods validated by experience? Because of the growing importance of evidence-based decision-making for improving programs and policies, this issue examines methods selection:
Which is better?
How can one be improved?
Are the results of the project worth the resources expended?
and how that leads to confidence in value-based conclusions. It presents a constructive dialogue on valuing in evaluation, with the goal of developing a pragmatic approach for guiding...
Do you make evidence-based decisions when designing and conducting evaluations, and use methods validated by experience? Because of the growing import...
Nowadays, a considerable amount of evaluation work is implemented internally--both nationally and across the world. As such, it is exceedingly important for evaluators and organizations to be aware of the issues in designing and implementing internal evaluation to realize its potential for enhancing organizational growth, competitive advantage, and social impact. This issue includes perspectives on internal evaluation from experienced evaluation practitioners from different fields and organizations who share theoretical and practical examples and case studies in promoting and conducting...
Nowadays, a considerable amount of evaluation work is implemented internally--both nationally and across the world. As such, it is exceedingly importa...
Advisory committees are used often in evaluation studies, yet this practice is little discussed or reported. This issue is the first full-length text devoted to the purpose, practice, and scholarship about this type of formal, structured advice.
It includes case studies and analyses of these to answer such basic topics as:
What is an evaluation advisory group (EAG)?
Why (not) use an EAG?
How to organize an EAG, and how to evaluate it?
The reader will learn how to view the EAG as a structure of expertise, its use for political legitimacy,...
Advisory committees are used often in evaluation studies, yet this practice is little discussed or reported. This issue is the first full-length te...
This issue focuses on connections between performance management and evaluation, a contentious topic at the moment. It does so by placing evaluation and monitoring under the overarching concept of performance management, and then by investigating five complementarities between performance monitoring and measurement on the one hand, and evaluation on the other. These complementarities are:
Sequential
Informational
Organizational
Methodical
Hierarchical.
Several case studies discuss the uses and complementarities of evaluation...
This issue focuses on connections between performance management and evaluation, a contentious topic at the moment. It does so by placing evaluatio...
This is the 155th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.
This is the 155th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation ...
