Evaluation for the 21st Century: A Handbook

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PREFACE The Coming Transformations in Evaluation - Eleanor Chelimsky PART ONE: EVALUATION: YESTERDAY AND TODAY Lessons Learned in Evaluation over the Past 25 Years - Thomas D Cook The Political Environment of Evaluation and What It Means for the Development of the Field - Eleanor Chelimsky PART TWO: AUDITING AND EVALUATION Evaluation as an Essential Component of 'Value-for-Money' - L Denis Desautels Auditing and Evaluation in Sweden - Inga-Britt Ahlenius Performance Auditing - Christopher Pollitt and Hilkka Summa Traveler's Tales Evaluation and Auditing in State Legislatures - Roger A Brooks Meeting the Client's Needs PART THREE: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION Trends in Performance Measurement - Joseph S Wholey Challenges for Evaluators Performance Measurement in the United Kingdom (1985-1995) - Caroline Mawhood PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION Evaluating Global Issues in a Community Setting - Masafumi Nagao The Development of Evaluation in the People's Republic of China - Hong Houqi and Ray C Rist Critical Comments on Evaluation Research in Denmark - Finn Hansson Evaluation, Markets, and Institutions in the Reform Agenda of Developing Countries - Eduardo Wiesner Evaluation in the World Bank - Robert Picciotto Antecedents, Instruments, and Concepts PART FIVE: NEW TOPICS FOR EVALUATION Evaluating Human Rights Violations - Ignacio Cano Lessons of Immigration Policy and the Role of Research - John Nieuwenhuysen Tracing Gender Issues through Institutional Change and Program Implementation at the World Bank - Josette Murphy Understanding the Impact of Development Projects on Women - Michael Bamberger The Tunisia Institutional Development Fund Project The Analysis and Evaluation of Foreign Aid - Kristina Svensson Evaluating the US Nuclear Triad - Kwai-Cheung Chan and Jonathan R Tumin Evaluation, Nuclear Power Plant Remediation and Redesign and Russian Policy Making after Chernobyl - Vladimir Novikov The Independent Evaluation of the Global Environment Facility Pilot Phase - W Haven North Environmental Changes and Their Measurement - Charles A Zraket and William Clark What Data Should We Collect and What Collaborative Systems Do We Need for Linking Knowledge to Action? PART SIX: A SAMPLER OF THE CURRENT METHODOLOGICAL TOOLKIT Multimethod Evaluations - Lois-ellin Datta Using Case Studies together with Other Methods Cross-Design Synthesis - Judith A Droitcour Concept and Application Research Synthesis for Public Health Policy - Michael A Stoto Experience of the Institute of Medicine Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education - David M Fetterman Cluster Evaluation - James R Sanders An Introduction to Scientific Realist Evaluation - Ray Pawson and Nicholas Tilley Single-Case Evaluation in British Social Services - Mansoor A F Kazi Twenty-One Years Old and Counting - Rob G Orwin The Interrupted Time-Series Comes of Age PART SEVEN: AN ENDURING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATION Advocacy in Evaluation - Robert E Stake A Necessary Evil? Truth and Objectivity in Evaluation - Michael Scriven