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

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: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Personal & public health, Health & personal development, Personal and public health / health education, Research methods: general