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  • Enhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units

    This book, co-edited by Marlène Läubli Loud and John Mayne, offers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation.
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  • Program Evaluation: a Plain English Guide

    This 11-step guide defines program evaluation, what it is used for, the different types and when they should be used. Also covered is how to plan a program evaluation, monitor performance, communicate findings, deliver bad news, and put imp
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  • Social network analysis in program evaluation

    This special edition of New Directions for Evaluation from the American Evaluation Association (AEA) provides nine articles on social network analysis in program evaluation.
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  • Planting the seeds for high-quality program evaluation in public health

    This free e-text book, created as a collaboration between the evaluation staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Asthma Control Program and Fierro Consulting Inc., provides a practical introduction to program eval
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  • Evaluative thinking

    This set of webpages and video from the Department of Education in New South Wales, Australia, provides background information on evaluative thinking and its use.
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  • The core of evaluation: Evaluative thinking

    This AEA365 blog by Tom Grayson provides a list of quotes from notable evaluation colleagues about the importance of evaluative thinking.
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  • Evaluative thinking: SAMEA webinar

    In this webinar on evaluative thinking, Thomas Schwandt explores two perspectives on the topic.
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  • Planning a program evaluation

    This guide from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is designed to support the planning of a program evaluation.
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  • Using case studies to do program evaluation

    This paper, authored by Edith D. Balbach for the California Department of Health Services is designed to help evaluators decide whether to use a case study evaluation approach.
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