Toward more useful evaluations. Evaluation use : both challenge and mandate
What is utilization-focused evaluation? How do you get started?
Fostering intended use by intended users : the personal factor
Intended uses of findings
Intended process uses : impacts of evaluation, thinking and experiences
Focusing evaluations : choices, options and decisions. Being active-reactive-adaptive : evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contingency thinking
Beyond the goals, clarification game : focusing on outcomes
Focusing an evaluation : alternatives to goals-based evaluation
Implementation evaluation : What happened in the program?
The program's theory of action : conceptualizing causal linkages
Appropriate methods. Evaluations worth using : utilization-focused methods decisions
The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis
Deciphering data and reporting results : analysis, interpretations, judgments, and recommendations
Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation. Power, politics, and ethics
Utilization-focused evaluation : process and premises.
