Building Evaluation Capacity ─ Activities for Teaching and Training

Building Evaluation Capacity, Second Edition provides ninety activities for learning about how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Hallie Preskill and Darlene Russ-Eft address the entire evaluation process: understanding what evaluation is, the politics and ethics of evaluation, the influence of culture on evaluation, evaluation models, approaches, and designs, data collection and analysis methods, communicating and reporting an evaluation's progress and findings, and building and sustaining support for evaluation. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, time estimates, materials needed, handouts, and procedures for effectively using the activity with as few as two participants. The book is ideal for use in program evaluation courses in higher education, in professional development workshops, and for training of stakeholders in organizations.