The Evaluation of Policies, Programs and Practices - Melvin M Mark, Jennifer C Greene and Ian Shaw
An Introduction
PART ONE: ROLE AND PURPOSE OF EVALUATION IN SOCIETY
The Purposes of Evaluation in a Democratic Society - Eleanor Chelimsky
Roles for Theory in Contemporary Evaluation Practice - Stewart I Donaldson and Mark W Lipsey
Developing Practical Knowledge
Evaluation for Practice Improvement and Organizational Learning - Patricia J Rogers and Bob Williams
Evaluation and the Study of Lived Experience - Thomas A Schwandt and Holli Burgon
Evaluation, Democracy and Social Change - Jennifer C Greene
Evaluation after Disenchantment? Five Issues Shaping the Role of Evaluation in Society - Peter Dahler-Larsen
PART TWO: EVALUATION AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE
Government as Structural Context for Evaluation - Phil Davies, Kathryn Newcomer and Haluk Soydan
The Social Relations of Evaluation - Tineke A Abma
Intellectual Contexts - John Stevenson and David Thomas
The Relationship between Evaluation and Politics - Ove Karlsson Vestman and Ross F Conner
Ethics in Evaluation - Helen Simons
A Comparative Analysis of Evaluation Utilization and Its Cognate Fields of Inquiry - J Bradley Cousins and Lyn M Shulha
Current Issues and Trends
Contextual Challenges for Evaluation Practice - Elliot Stern
PART THREE: THE PRACTICE OF EVALUATION
Methods for Policymaking and Knowledge Development Evaluations - Melvin M Mark and Gary T Henry
Embedding Improvements, Lived Experience and Social Justice in Evaluation Practice - Elizabeth Whitmore et al
Managing Evaluations - Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman
Communicating Evaluation - Marvin C Alkin, Christina A Christie and Mike Rose
On Discerning Quality in Evaluation - Robert E Stake and Thomas A Schwandt
The Practice of Evaluation: Challenges and New Directions - Lois-ellin Datta
PART FOUR: DOMAINS OF EVALUATION PRACTICE
Evaluation in Education - David Nevo
Evaluation of Health Services: Reflections on Practice - Andrew Long
Social Work and the Human Services - Ian Shaw with Carol T Mowbray and Hazel Qureshi
Evaluation in Criminal Justice - Nick Tilley and Alan Clarke
Evaluation of Development Interventions and Humanitarian Action - Osvaldo Feinstein and Tony Beck
Evidence-Based Evaluation in Different Professional Domains - Alan Clarke
Similarities, Differences and Challenges