Success in Evaluation - Focusing on the Positives

Informationen zum Autor Rudi Turksema Klappentext This book takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use. Zusammenfassung This book takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword, Ray C. Rist Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Rudi Turksema, Peter van der Knaap, and Steffen Bohni Nielsen Part One: Evaluative Approaches to Find Success 2. Positive Thinking and Learning from Evaluation Nicoletta Stame and Veronica Lo Presti 3. Structuring Evaluations and Monitoring for Learning John Mayne 4. Using Big Data to Identify Success Jonathan D. Breul 5. What Public Sector Organizations Can Learn from the Private Sector Evaluative Practices: The Case of the Balanced Scorecard R. Pablo Guerrero O . 6. Focusing on Success: A Review of Everyday Practices of Organizational Learning in Public Administration Karol Olejniczak Part Two: Case Studies in Finding Success 7. Building on Success to Succeed: The Role of Evaluation in Evidence-Based Policymaking in Denmark Daniel Schwartz Bojsen and Line Dybdal 8. Managing Evaluative Knowledge: The Case of Mothers' Aid Steffen Bohni Nielsen 9. Indicators of Success: Using Information and Learning to Support an Effective Performance Audit Function Jeremy Lonsdale and Ruth Stewart 10. Conditions for Evaluation Success in the Education Sector Claus C. Rebien and Andreas Hougaard 11. Sustaining the Success of Sustainable Road Safety: The Contributions of Responsive Evaluation and Performance Indicators Peter van der Knaap 12. The Power of Positive Evaluation: Bridging Evaluative Inquiry, Learning, and Success Peter van der Knaap, Steffen Bohni Nielsen, and Rudi Turksema List of Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: Steffen Bohni (EDT)/ Turksema Nielsen, Steffen Bohni Turksema Nielsen, Ray C. Rist, Rudi Turksema
• Assisted by: Peter van der Knaap (Editor), Peter van der Knapp (Editor), Steffen Bohni Nielsen (Editor), Nielsen Steffen Bohni (Editor), Rudi Turksema (Editor), Turksema Rudi (Editor), Peter van der Knaap (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2015
• EAN: 9781412855686
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-5568-6
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Comparative Policy Evaluation; Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Organizational theory & behaviour, Public Administration, Management decision making, Organizational theory and behaviour, Public administration / Public policy