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by Marvin C. Alkin; Anne T. Vo; Christina A. Christie

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Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis, visualizing qualitative data with software, and more. Twenty-six concise chapters, or "sessions," give students, applied researchers, and program administrators a solid foundation for conducting or using evaluations. Covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, the book emphasizes fostering evaluation use. It shows how to build collaborative relationships with users; formulate answerable evaluation questions; deal with contingencies that might alter the traditional sequence of an evaluation; and collect, analyze, and report data. Student-friendly features throughout the sessions include titles written as questions, bulleted recaps, "Thinking Ahead" and "Next Steps" pointers, cautionary notes, and annotated suggestions for further reading. An in-depth case study provides the basis for end-of-session practice exercises.

New to This Edition

  • New sessions on context-sensitive evaluation, including the organizational, sociopolitical, and community contexts of a program.
  • New or expanded discussions of timely topics: identifying evaluation decision makers, analyzing program costs, coding and visualizing qualitative data with software, and more.
  • Updated suggestions for further reading and discussion in every chapter.

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  • Title Evaluation Essentials: From A to Z
  • Author Marvin C. Alkin; Anne T. Vo; Christina A. Christie
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Guilford Publications
  • Publication date 2024-11-19
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9781462555444 / 1462555446
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Evaluation research (Social action programs)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024022338
  • Dewey Decimal Code 001.4

About the author

Marvin C. Alkin, EdD, is Emeritus Professor in the Social Research Methods Division in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has written extensively on evaluation practice, evaluation utilization, and comparative evaluation theory. Dr. Alkin is a founder and former Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation. He has been a consultant to six national governments and has conducted more than 85 evaluations of a variety of educational, governmental, and foundation programs. Dr. Alkin received UCLA's 2024-2025 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award for his scholarly contributions post-retirement. He is also a recipient of the Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award and the Research on Evaluation Award from the American Evaluation Association.

Anne T. Vo, PhD, is Associate Professor of Health Systems Science and Senior Director of Assessment and Evaluation at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, where she leads the development and execution of the school's educational evaluation strategies and policies. As a research methodologist and systems scientist, Dr. Vo has provided consultation services and evaluation support to more than 35 social services programs and organizations, using community-driven and equity-oriented methods. She has an extensive record of publications in peer-reviewed journals and has held regional and national leadership roles with the American Evaluation Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the Southern California Evaluation Association.

Christina A. Christie, PhD, is the Wasserman Dean and Professor of Education in the Division of Social Research Methodology in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is designed to strengthen understanding of evaluation as a method for facilitating social change and to advance frameworks for understanding evaluation models, with the goal of refining practice. Dr. Christie is a recipient of the Marcia Guttentag Early Career Award and the Research on Evaluation Award from the American Evaluation Association (AEA), as well as the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. She has served on the board of AEA and as an associate editor and section editor of the American Journal of Evaluation.

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