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Informationen zum Autor Sue C. Funnell is a director of Performance Improvement, a consulting company, and the former president of the Australasian Evaluation Society. Patricia J. Rogers , PhD, is professor of Public Sector Evaluation at Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research, Consulting, and Learning in Evaluation, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory?not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance. Purposeful Program Theory shows how to develop, represent, and use program theory thoughtfully and strategically to suit your particular situation, drawing on the fifty-year history of program theory and the authors' experiences over more than twenty-five years. "From needs assessment to intervention design, from implementation to outcomes evaluation, from policy formulation to policy execution and evaluation, program theory is paramount. But until now no book has examined these multiple uses of program theory in a comprehensive, understandable, and integrated way. This promises to be a breakthrough book, valuable to practitioners, program designers, evaluators, policy analysts, funders, and scholars who care about understanding why an intervention works or doesn't work." ?Michael Quinn Patton, author, Utilization-Focused Evaluation "Finally, the definitive guide to evaluation using program theory! Far from the narrow 'one true way' approaches to program theory, this book provides numerous practical options for applying program theory to fulfill different purposes and constraints, and guides the reader through the sound critical thinking required to select from among the options. The tour de force of the history and use of program theory is a truly global view, with examples from around the world and across the full range of content domains. A must-have for any serious evaluator." ?E. Jane Davidson, PhD, Real Evaluation Ltd. Companion Web site: josseybass.com/go/funnellrogers Zusammenfassung Program Theory in Evaluation Practice is a ground-breaking reference that teaches how to develop an explicit causal model that links an intervention (project, program or policy) with its intended or observed impacts and using this to guide monitoring and evaluation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures, Tables, and Exhibits x Acknowledgments xv The Authors xvii Introduction: The Promise and Risks of Using Program Theory xix Part One Key Ideas in Program Theory Chapter 1: The Essence of Program Theory 3 Evaluation Without Program Theory 3 Evaluation with Program Theory 6 Summary 13 Exercises 13 Chapter 2: Variations of Program Theory over Time 15 A Short History of Program Theory 15 Terminology in Program Theory 23 Key Ideas in Program Theory 30 Summary 34 Exercises 35 Chapter 3: Common Myths and Traps 37 Some Common Myths 37 Traps to Avoid When Developing and Using Program Theory 41 Summary 52 Exercises 52 Part Two Assessing Your Circumstances Chapter 4: Scoping Intended Uses 55 Why Intended Use Matters 55 Using Program Theory 58 Summary 67 Exercises 68 Chapter 5: The Nature of the Situation and the Intervention 69 Simple, Complicated, and Complex 70 Focus 74 Governance 80 Consistency 82 Necessariness 84 Sufficiency 85 Change Trajectory 88 Summary 90 Exercise 91 Part Three Developing and Representing Program Theory Chapter 6: Processes to Ide...
