Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS ISSUES IN EVALUATION
SECTION ONE: TYPOLOGIES AND PARADIGMS
The Logic of Evaluation and Evaluation Practice - Michael Scriven
Evaluation as Sensemaking - George Julnes and Melvin M Mark
Knowledge Construction in a Realist World
Establishing Evaluative Conclusions - Deborah M Fournier
A Distinction between General and Working Logic
Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics - Thomas A Schwandt
In with the New - Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley
Introducing Scientific Realism
A Theoretical Framework and Grid for Analysis of Programme-Evaluation Practices - Michel Demarteau
Policy Evaluation and Learning - Peter van der Knaap
Feedback, Enlightenment or Argumentation?
Merit Criteria and Performance Standards - Evert Vedung
Public Managers amidst Ambiguity - Tineke A Abma and Mirko Noordegraaf
Towards a Typology of Evaluative Practices in Public Management
SECTION TWO: ETHICS AND VALUES
Evaluation as Advocacy - Jennifer C Greene
How We Inhabit our Evaluations - Saville Kushner
Research on Evaluation Ethics - Michael Morris
What Have we Learned and Why Is It Important?
Anything Goes - Clem Adelman
Evaluation and Relativism
The Limits of Constructivism in Evaluation - Saville Kushner
The Future of Ethics in Evaluation - Dianna L Newman
Developing the Dialogue
SECTION THREE: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DEBATES
Specifying Inquiry Modes - Melvin M Mark, Gary T Henry and George Julnes
Philosophy of Science and the Quantitative - Qualitative Debates - William R Shadish
Thirteen Common Errors
The Foundations of Qualitative Research - Dawn Snape and Liz Spencer
VOLUME TWO
PART TWO: EVALUATION PRACTICE FOR ENGAGEMENT
SECTION ONE: CASE STUDIES AND DIALOGICAL METHODS
The Abridged Version of Case Study Research - Robert K Yin
Design and Method
A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool - Jessica Dart and Rick Davies
The Most Significant Change Technique
Stake′s Responsive Evaluation - Tineke A Abma and Robert E Stake
Core Ideas and Evolution
SECTION TWO: PARTICIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT
Deliberative Democratic Evaluation in Practice - Ernest R House and Kenneth R Howe
Empowerment Evaluation - David M Fetterman
Participatory Program Planning - Laura Nichols
Including Program Participants and Evaluators
Democratic Evaluation - Beatrice Floc′hlay and Eric Plottu
From Empowerment Evaluation to Public Decision-Making
Participatory Evaluation in a Community Organization: Fostering Stakeholder Empowerment and Utilization - Danielle Papineau and Margaret C Kiely
SECTION THREE: COMBINING METHODS AND DATA
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs - Jennifer C Greene, Valerie J Caracelli and Wendy F Graham
An Example of Qualitative Research Methods in Realist Evaluation - Mansoor A F Kazi
From Puzzles to Problems - Daniel J McLinden and William MK Trochim
Assessing the Value of Education in a Business Context with Concept Mapping and Pattern Matching
Qualitative Evaluations, Combined Methods and Key Challenges - Jeff Hearn, John Lawler and George Dowswell
General Lessons from the Qualitative Evaluation of Community Intervention in Stroke Rehabilitation
SECTION FOUR: PLANNING AND MANAGING EVALUATION
Beginning an Evaluation with RUFDATA - Murray Saunders
Theorizing a Practical Approach to Evaluation Planning
Evaluability Assessment - M F Smith
Reflections on the Process Method
RENOMO - A Design Tool for Evaluations - Wolfgang Beywl and Philip Potter
Designing Evaluations Responsive to Stakeholders′ Interests by Working with Nominal Groups using the Moderation
SECTION FIVE: MULTI-SITE AND MULTI-LEVEL EVALUATION
A Framework for Understanding and Improving Multisite Evaluations - Roger B Straw and James M Herrell
Conceptual Challenges Confronting Cluster Evaluation - Blaine R Worthen and Constance C Schmitz
Local Evaluation in a National Early Years Excellence Centres Pilot Programme: Integrating Performance Management and Participatory Evaluation - Colin Biott and Tina Cook
Evaluative Site Visits - Frances Lawrenz, Nanette Keiser and Bethann Lavoie
A Methodological Review
VOLUME THREE
PART THREE: EXPLANATORY AND ECONOMIC MODELS
SECTION ONE: PROGRAMME THEORY AND LOGIC MODELS
Program Theory - Patricia J Rogers
Not Whether Programs Work but How They Work
Theory-Driven Program Evaluation in the New Millennium - Stewart I Donaldson
Logic Models - John A McLaughlin and Gretchen B Jordan
A Tool for Telling Your Programs Performance Story
Implementing a Theory of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative - Sharon Milligan et al
A Case Study
Integrating a Comparison Group Design into a Theory of Change Evaluation - Beth C Weitzman, Diana Silver and Keri-Nicole Dillman
The Case of the Urban Health Initiative
A Pattern-Matching Approach to Link Program Theory and Evaluation Data - Jules M Marquart
Reconstructing Program Theories: Methods Available and Problems to be Solved - Frans L Leeuw
SECTION TWO: EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR LIMITS
Reforms as Experiments - Donald T Campbell
The False Choice between Theory-Based Evaluation and Experimentation - Thomas D Cook
Methods for the Experimenting Society - Donald T Campbell
The Randomised Trial - Lone Scocozza
A Critique from the Philosophy of Science
Should Evaluation be Freed from Its Causal Links? An Answer Illustrated by European Economic Development Policies - Jacques Toulemonde
SECTION THREE: ECONOMICS AND COSTS
Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field - Tom A J Sefton
Making Ends Meet
Cost-Analysis Approaches in Evaluation and Decision Making - Henry M Levin and Patrick J McEwan
Policy Evaluation and the Concepts of Deadweight and Additionality - James J McEldowney
A Commentary
The Limits of Cost Benefit Evaluation - Ernest R House
Ethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis - Steven D Pinkerton et al
PART FOUR: STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES
SECTION ONE: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES
Evaluation Research and the Performance Management Movement - Ann Bonar Blalock
From Estrangement to Useful Integration?
Outcomes and the Problem - Lawrence B Mohr
VOLUME FOUR
PART FOUR: STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES (continued)
SECTION ONE: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES (continued)
Bridging the Macro and Micro Levels in Outcome Evaluation - Ingrid M E Munck
Evaluation and the Social Construction of Impacts - Frans-Bauke van der Meer
Effectiveness in Health Promotion - Keith Tones
Indicators and Evidence of Success
Desk Screening of Development Projects - Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard
Is It Effective?
Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement - Burt Perrin
Opportunities for Program Evaluators to Facilitate Performance-Based Management - M A Scheirer and K Newcomer
SECTION TWO: CAPACITY AND UTILISATION
Developing Systematic Internal Evaluation - Arnold J Love
Improving the Quality of Internal Evaluation - Rosalie T Torres
The Evaluator as Consultant-Mediator
Internal Evaluation - Jonathan A Morell
A Synthesis of Traditional Methods and Industrial Engineering
Have We Learned Anything New about the Use of Evaluation? - Carol H Weiss
The Evaluator′s Responsibility for Utilization - Michael Quinn Patton
Building Evaluation Capacity within Organisations - Richard C Sonnichsen
Evaluation Utilization as Argumentation - Ville Valovirta
SECTION THREE: POLICY, EVIDENCE AND LEARNING
Evaluation for Decisions - Carol H Weiss
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?
From Knowing to Doing - Sandra Nutley, Isabel Walter and Huw T O Davies
A Framework for Understanding the Evidence-Into-Practice Agenda
Evidence-Based Policy - Ray Pawson
In Search of a Method
Evidence-Based Policy - Ray Pawson
The Promise of `Realist Synthesis′
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research - Paul A Sabatier
Towards an Evaluation of the Effects of Laws - Sidsel Sverdrup
Utilizing Time-Series Data of Complaints