Success in evaluation : focusing on the positives

Author(s)

• Nielsen, Steffen Bohni
• Turksema, Rudi
• Knaap, Peter van der
• Rist, Ray C.

Bibliographic Information

Success in evaluation : focusing on the positives

Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Rudi Turksema, and Peter van der Knaap, editors ; with a foreword by Ray C. Rist

（Comparative policy evaluation series, v. 22）

Transaction Publishers, c2015

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Success in Evaluation 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. This book offers many different lessons on how to improve evaluation design, research processes, and reporting. It is a realistic look at performance management, the evidence movement, and the demand barriers that so often block the role evaluators can play in organizational learning and decision-making. International case studies and lessons are included that both explain success-oriented methods and share insightful lessons from the real world. Together, they present a convincing case that evaluation for success allows for increased constructive interaction amongst both stakeholders and evaluators and, as a result, learning processes and outcomes will improve.

Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BB2133294X
• ISBN:
  • 9781412855686
• LCCN: 2014030059
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 249 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : H62
  • DC23 : 361.6/1072
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
  • LCSH : Social planning -- Evaluation
  • LCSH : Social service -- Evaluation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA71035020