Everyday Evaluation on the Run - The User-Friendly Introductory Guide to Effective Evaluation

A practical guide to evaluating programs and organisations, both large and small, in workplace and community settings.

List of contents

Foreword to the first edition

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgements & Dedication

Guide to contents

List of Guides and Diagram

Who and what this book is for

The value of doing everyday evaluation - and why we don't do it

Whose values?

But how on earth can we make time for it?

1 What is evaluation?

2 The evaluative research cycle

3 Open inquiry and audit review

4 Developing a culture of evaluation

5 Models and techniques

About the author

Yoland Wadsworth is a path-breaker in methodology and use of social research and evaluation in health, community and human services. She is Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, a Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australasian Evaluation Society (FAES). She is author of the bestselling Do It Yourself Social Research and of Building in Research and Evaluation: Human inquiry for living systems.

Summary

A practical guide to evaluating programs and organisations, both large and small, in workplace and community settings.

Product details

• Authors: Yoland Wadsworth, Wadsworth Yoland
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718046
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71804-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Personal & public health, Health & personal development, Personal and public health / health education, Research methods: general