Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation Contributor(s): Patton, Michael Quinn (Author) |
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ISBN: 141297741X ISBN-13: 9781412977418 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research |
Dewey: 300.72 |
LCCN: 2011019187 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.3" W x 9" (1.72 lbs) 488 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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, incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts. The book integrates theory and practice, is based on both research and professional experience, and offers new case examples and cartoons with Patton′s signature humor. |
Contributor Bio(s): Patton, Michael Quinn: - Michael Quinn Patton is an independent consultant with more than 40 years' experience conducting applied research and program evaluations. He lives in Minnesota, where, according to the state's poet laureate, Garrison Keillor, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." It was this interesting lack of statistical variation in Minnesota that led him to qualitative inquiry despite the strong quantitative orientation of his doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota for 18 years, including 5 years as director of the Minnesota Center for Social Research, where he was awarded the Morse-Amoco Award for innovative teaching. Readers of this book will not be surprised to learn that he has also won the University of Minnesota storytelling competition. |