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Title:
Evaluation failures : 22 tales of mistakes made and lessons learned / Kylie Hutchinson, editor ; foreword by Michael Quinn Patton.
Publisher:
SAGE PublicationsInc.,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xviii, 159 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Subject:
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Social sciences--Methodology.
Other Authors:
Hutchinson, Kylie, editor.
Patton, Michael Quinn, writer of foreword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
It's not me, it's you : the value of addressing conflict head on / Corey Newhouse -- The scope creep train wreck : how responsive evaluation can go off the rails / E. Jane Davidson -- The buffalo jump : lessons after the fall / Gail Vallance Barrington -- Evaluator self-evaluation : when self-flagellation is not enough / Emma Williams -- That alien feeling : engaging all the stakeholders in the universe / Hallie Preskill -- Seeds of failure : how the evaluation of a west African agricultural scale up project went awry / Thomas Archibald -- I didn't know i would be a tightrope walker someday : balancing evaluator responsiveness and independence / Rakesh Mohan -- When national pride is beyond facts : navigating conflicting stakeholder requirements / Felix Muramutsa -- Stars in our eyes : what happens when things are too good to be true / Jara Dean-Coffey -- A "failed" logic model : how I learned to connect with all stakeholders / Chris Lovato -- Lost without you : a lesson in system mapping and engaging stakeholders / Kylie Hutchinson -- You got to know when to hold 'em : an evaluation that went from bad to worse / Robert Shepherd -- The evaluation from hell : when evaluators and clients don't quite fit / Marla Steinberg -- The best laid plans of mice and evaluators : dealing with data collection surprises in the field / Janice Noga -- Are you my amigo, or my chero? The importance of cultural competence in data collection and evaluation / Isaac D. Castillo -- Omg, why can't we get the data? : a lesson in managing evaluation expectations / Jennifer Bisgard and Mary Pat Selveggio -- No, actually, this project has to stop : learning when to pull the plug / Karen Snyder -- Missing in action : how assumption, language, history and soft skills influenced a cross-cultural participatory evaluation / Susan Igras -- "This is highly illogical" : how a spock evaluator learns that context and mixed methods are everything / Benoit Gauthier -- The ripple that became a splash : the importance of context and why I now do data parties / Diana Tindall -- The Voldemort evaluation : how I learned to survive organizational dysfunction, confusion, and distrust / Lisa O'Reilly -- The only way out is through / Stephanie Evergreen.
ISBN:
9781544320007
1544320000
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1043972048
LCCN:
2018021805
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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