Evaluation Time:  A Practical Guide for Evaluation 

Gail Vallance Barrington and Beverly Triana-Tremain 

• An accessible, contemporary, and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation
• Integrates new approaches and concerns, and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies
• How to measure planned and implemented interventions while focusing on the questions most important to the community and organizations in which the evaluation takes place.
• Stresses the role of critical and evaluative thinking and self-reflection
• Demonstrates the importance of context and equity in today’s turbulent environment, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I • Fundamentals Of Evaluation

Chapter 1 • The Scope of Evaluation

Chapter 2 • How Evaluators Think

Chapter 3 • Program Logic

Part II • Evaluation And The Program Life Cycle

Chapter 4 • Pre- and Early Program Evaluation

Chapter 5 • Mid-Cycle Program Evaluation

Chapter 6 • End-of-Cycle Program Evaluation

Part III • Evaluation Methods

Chapter 7 • Using Quantitative Methods in Evaluation

Chapter 8 • Using Qualitative Methods in Evaluation

Chapter 9 • Using Mixed Methods in Evaluation

Part IV • Communicating About Evaluation

Chapter 10 • The Evaluation Plan

Chapter 11 • Communication, Reporting, and Use

Chapter 12 • Evaluation Context and the Evaluator’s New Stance