Performance evaluation proven approaches for improving program and organizational performance

Performance Evaluation is a hands-on text for practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in how to use scientifically-based evaluations that are both rigorous and flexible. Author Ingrid Guerra-López, an internationally-known evaluation expert, introduces the foundations of evaluation and p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Guerra-Lopez, Ingrid (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass c2008.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684437306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations of evaluation
  • Principles of performance-based evaluation
  • Overview of existing evaluation mode
  • Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation
  • Phillip's return-on-investment methodology
  • Brinkerhoff"s success case method
  • The impact evaluation process
  • The CIPP model
  • Evaluating evaluations
  • Data
  • Data collection
  • Analysis of evaluation data: tools and techniques
  • Communicating the findings
  • Common errors in evaluation
  • Continual improvement
  • Contracting for evaluation services
  • Intelligence gathering for decision making:
  • The future of evaluation in performance improvement.