Utilization-focused evaluation: The new century text

PART ONE: TOWARD MORE USEFUL EVALUATIONS Evaluation Use Both Challenge and Mandate What Is Utilization-Focused Evaluation? How Do You Get Started? Fostering Intended Use by Intended Users The Personal Factor Intended Uses of Findings Intended Process Uses Impacts of Evaluation Thinking and Experiences PART TWO: FOCUSING EVALUATIONS: CHOICES, OPTIONS AND DECISIONS Being Active-Reactive-Adaptive Evaluator Roles, Situational Responsiveness and Strategic Contingency Thinking Beyond the Goals Clarification Game Focusing on Outcomes Focusing an Evaluation Alternatives to Goals-Based Evaluation Implementation Evaluation What Happened in the Program? The Program's Theory of Action Conceptualizing Casual Linkages PART THREE: APPROPRIATE METHODS Evaluations Worth Using Utilization-Focused Methods Decisions The Paradigms Debate and a Utilitarian Synthesis Deciphering Data and Reporting Results Analysis, Interpretations, Judgments and Recommendations PART FOUR: REALITIES AND PRACTICALITIES OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION Power, Politics and Ethics Utilization-Focused Evaluation Process and Premises