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Informationen zum Autor Huey T. Chen has been a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2002. He was born and raised in Taiwan. Dr. Chen worked at the University of Akron until 1997, when he joined the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the chief of an evaluation branch. Dr. Chen had taken a leadership role in designing and implementing a national evaluation system for assessing the CDC funded HIV prevention programs, which are based in health departments and community organizations. Dr. Chen has contributed to the development of evaluation theory and methodology, especially in the areas of program theory and theory-driven evaluations. His book, Theory-Driven Evaluations, has been recognized as one of the landmarks in program evaluation. In 1998 he received the Senior Biomedical Research Service Award from the CDC. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for contributions to Evaluation Theory from the American Evaluation Association. Klappentext provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator's toolbox. Zusammenfassung Introducing students to the real world of evaluation and focusing on issues that arise in professional practice, this book shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders' needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE BOOK ABOUT THE AUTHOR PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Fundamentals for Program Evaluation 2. Understand Approaches to Evaluation and Select Ones That Work: The Comprehensive Evaluation Typology 3. Logic Models and the Action Model/Change Model Schema (Program Theory) PART II: PROGRAM EVALUATION TO HELP STAKEHOLDERS DEVELOP A PROGRAM PLAN 4. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Program Scope 5. Helping Stakeholders Clarify a Program Plan: Action Plan PART III: EVALUATING IMPLEMENTATION 6. Constructive Process Evaluation Tailored for the Initial Implementation 7. Assessing Implementation in the Mature Implementation Stage PART IV: PROGRAM MONITORING AND OUTCOME EVALUATION 8. Program Monitoring and the Development of a Monitoring System 9. Constructive Outcome Evaluations 10. The Experimentation Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation 11. The Holistic Effectuality Evaluation Approach to Outcome Evaluation 12. The Theory-Driven Approach to Outcome Evaluation PART V: ADVANCED ISSUES IN PROGRAM EVALUATION 13. What to Do if Your Logic Model Does Not Work as Well as Expected 14. Formal Theories Versus Stakeholder Theories in Interventions: Relative Strengths and Limitations 15. Evaluation and Dissemination: Top-Down Approach Versus Bottom-Up Approach References Index ...
