What methodological tools have been most useful in doing evaluation? What are some of the new methodologies that are being used and developed? Will the types of things evaluated expand from programs, personnel, and products to foreign aid, medical technology, environmental interventions, and World Bank loan programs? What will evaluation be like in the 21st century? These impressive evaluators from around the globe explore how evaluation has come to be what it is today and what the professional evaluation landscape will be like in the future. They examine the following:
-What makes evaluation different from other disciplines?
-The links and differences between evaluation and auditing professions?
-Which activities have priority in evaluation, under what circumstances, and for what purposes?
-New methodological approaches to doing evaluation.
-The issues of advocacy versus truth in evaluation and between evaluating programs versus empowering people to evaluate their own programs.
Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators′ chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.
A stunning achievement, Evaluation for the 21st Century is for all professionals and practitioners in evaluation, management, public administration, sociology, psychology, education research, public health, and nursing.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE
The Coming Transformations in Evaluation - Eleanor Chelimsky
PART ONE: EVALUATION: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Lessons Learned in Evaluation over the Past 25 Years - Thomas D Cook
The Political Environment of Evaluation and What It Means for the Development of the Field - Eleanor Chelimsky
PART TWO: AUDITING AND EVALUATION
Evaluation as an Essential Component of ′Value-for-Money′ - L Denis Desautels
Auditing and Evaluation in Sweden - Inga-Britt Ahlenius
Performance Auditing - Christopher Pollitt and Hilkka Summa
Traveler′s Tales
Evaluation and Auditing in State Legislatures - Roger A Brooks
Meeting the Client′s Needs
PART THREE: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION
Trends in Performance Measurement - Joseph S Wholey
Challenges for Evaluators
Performance Measurement in the United Kingdom (1985-1995) - Caroline Mawhood
PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION
Evaluating Global Issues in a Community Setting - Masafumi Nagao
The Development of Evaluation in the People′s Republic of China - Hong Houqi and Ray C Rist
Critical Comments on Evaluation Research in Denmark - Finn Hansson
Evaluation, Markets, and Institutions in the Reform Agenda of Developing Countries - Eduardo Wiesner
Evaluation in the World Bank - Robert Picciotto
Antecedents, Instruments, and Concepts
PART FIVE: NEW TOPICS FOR EVALUATION
Evaluating Human Rights Violations - Ignacio Cano
Lessons of Immigration Policy and the Role of Research - John Nieuwenhuysen
Tracing Gender Issues through Institutional Change and Program Implementation at the World Bank - Josette Murphy
Understanding the Impact of Development Projects on Women - Michael Bamberger
The Tunisia Institutional Development Fund Project
The Analysis and Evaluation of Foreign Aid - Kristina Svensson
Evaluating the US Nuclear Triad - Kwai-Cheung Chan and Jonathan R Tumin
Evaluation, Nuclear Power Plant Remediation and Redesign and Russian Policy Making after Chernobyl - Vladimir Novikov
The Independent Evaluation of the Global Environment Facility Pilot Phase - W Haven North
Environmental Changes and Their Measurement - Charles A Zraket and William Clark
What Data Should We Collect and What Collaborative Systems Do We Need for Linking Knowledge to Action?
PART SIX: A SAMPLER OF THE CURRENT METHODOLOGICAL TOOLKIT
Multimethod Evaluations - Lois-ellin Datta
Using Case Studies together with Other Methods
Cross-Design Synthesis - Judith A Droitcour
Concept and Application
Research Synthesis for Public Health Policy - Michael A Stoto
Experience of the Institute of Medicine
Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education - David M Fetterman
Cluster Evaluation - James R Sanders
An Introduction to Scientific Realist Evaluation - Ray Pawson and Nicholas Tilley
Single-Case Evaluation in British Social Services - Mansoor A F Kazi
Twenty-One Years Old and Counting - Rob G Orwin
The Interrupted Time-Series Comes of Age
PART SEVEN: AN ENDURING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATION
Advocacy in Evaluation - Robert E Stake
A Necessary Evil?
Truth and Objectivity in Evaluation - Michael Scriven
