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Informationen zum Autor Kylie Hutchinson took her first course in evaluation in 1988 and was hooked. She won the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Student Competition in 1990, made the leap into evaluation consulting in 1998, and has never looked back. In 2005 she was asked to deliver the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills course in British Columbia which she did until 2011. This focus on training sparked a new interest in evaluation capacity-building and she enrolled in Vancouver Community College’s Instructor Development Program. By 2007 approximately 40% of her work was evaluation capacity-building. She continues to this day providing both her own private and sponsored workshops and webinars for clients such as the American Evaluation Association, Canadian Evaluation Society, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Since 2008, she has become increasingly interested in evaluation reporting, and has run a pre-conference workshop on the topic at AEA. Kylie acknowledges her roots are firmly rooted in the muddy trenches of evaluation practice versus academia. She has a passion for taking evaluation theory and making it accessible for evaluators to use immediately in their practice: this is evidenced by some of the free evaluation resources she has produced over the years including one-page reference sheets, a podcast, two videos, an eLearning course, a mobile learning course for senior decision-makers, and an evaluation glossary mobile app. She is also the author of An Innovative Guide to Evaluation Reporting and Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program Sustainability Klappentext This practical book is a candid collection of stories in which seasoned evaluators share professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward. Zusammenfassung This practical book is a candid collection of stories in which seasoned evaluators share professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Michael Quinn Patton Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. MANAGE THE EVALUATION Chapter 1. It's Not Me, It's You: The Value of Addressing Conflict Head On - Corey Newhouse Chapter 2. The Scope Creep Train Wreck: How Responsive Evaluation Can Go Off the Rails - E. Jane Davidson Chapter 3. The Buffalo Jump: Lessons After the Fall - Gail Vallance Barrington Chapter 4. Evaluator Self-Evaluation: When Self-Flagellation Is Not Enough - Emma Williams PART II. ENGAGE STAKEHOLDERS Chapter 5. That Alien Feeling: Engaging All Stakeholders in the Universe - Hallie Preskill Chapter 6. Seeds of Failure: How the Evaluation of a West African Agricultural Scale Up Project Went Awry - Thomas Archibald Chapter 7. I Didn't Know I Would Be a Tightrope Walker Someday: Balancing Evaluator Responsiveness and Independence - Rakesh Mohan Chapter 8. When National Pride Is Beyond Facts: Navigating Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements - Felix Muramutsa PART III. BUILD EVALUATION CAPACITY Chapter 9. Stars in Our Eyes: What Happens When Things Are Too Good to Be True - Jara Dean-Coffey PART IV. DESCRIBE THE PROGRAM Chapter 10. A "Failed" Logic Model: How I Learned to Connect With All Stakeholders - Chris Lovato Chapter 11. Lost Without You: A Lesson in System Mapping and Engaging Stakeholders - Kylie Hutchinson PART V. FOCUS THE EVALUATION DESIGN Chapter 12. You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em: An Evaluation That Went From Bad to Worse - Robert P. Shepherd Chapter 13. The Evaluation From Hell: When Evaluators and Clients Don't Quite Fit - Marla Steinberg PART VI. GATHER CREDIBLE EVIDENCE Chapter 14. The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Evaluators: Dealing With Data Collection Surprises in the Field - Jan Noga Chapter 15. Are You My Amigo, or My Chero? The Importance of Cultural Competence in Data Collection and Evaluation - Isaac D. Castillo<...
