Session A. What Is Evaluation?

Session B. Why Do Evaluations?

Session C. Who Does Evaluations?

Session D. Who Are the Users of an Evaluation?

Session E. How Do You Strengthen Relationships with Users?

Session F. How Do You Describe the Program?

Session G. How Do You “Understand” the Program?

Session H. What Are the Questions and Issues to Be Addressed?

Session I. What Are the Sociopolitical and Community Contexts of the Program?

Session J. What Is the Organizational Context of the Program?

Session K. What Are Instruments for Collecting Quantitative Data?

Session L. What Are Instruments for Collecting Qualitative Data?

Session M. How Do Data Collection Issues Impact Potential Evaluability?

Session N. Are the Questions Evaluable?

Session O. How Do We Plan for Process-Focused Evaluation?

Session P. How Do We Plan for Outcome-Focused Evaluation?

Session Q. How Do We Manage the Evaluation?

Session R. How Are Quantitative Data Analyzed?

Session S. How Are Qualitative Data Analyzed?

Session T. How Are Analyzed Data Used to Answer Questions?

Session U. How Are Evaluation Results Reported?

Session V. What Is the Evaluator’s Role in Evaluation Use?

Session W. What Are the Evaluation Standards and Codes of Behavior?

Session X. Contracting for Evaluations

Session Y. How Are Costs Analyzed?

Session Z. Context Sensitive Evaluation: Attaining Evaluation Use

Appendix A. Use Factors: Relationship to Research Compilations

Appendix B. How Can You Embark on a Program to Learn More about Evaluation?

Appendix C. An Evaluation Lesson, by “Unknown Student”

Index

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