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ESSENTIALS OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION
Michael Quinn Patton, Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Saint Paul, MN
Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall
framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new
material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system,
incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts.
CONTENTS 1. Assess and Build Program and Organizational Readiness for Utilization-Focused Evaluation / 2. Assess and Enhance Evaluator
Readiness and Competence to Undertake a Utilization-Focused Evaluation / 3. Identify, Organize, and Engage Primary Intended Users: The
Personal Factor / 4. Situation Analysis Conducted Jointly With Primary Intended Users / 5. Identify and Prioritize Primary Intended Uses by
Determining Priority Purposes / 6. Consider and Build in Process Uses if and as Appropriate / 7. Focus Priority Evaluation Questions / 8. Check That
Fundamental Areas for Evaluation Inquiry Are Being Adequately Addressed: Implementation, Outcomes, and Attribution Questions / 9. Determine
What Intervention Model or Theory of Change Is Being Evaluated / 10. Negotiate Appropriate Methods to Generate Credible Findings That Support
Intended Use by Intended Users / 11. Make Sure Intended Users Understand Potential Methods Controversies and Their Implications / 12. Simulate
Use of Findings: Evaluation's Equivalent of a Dress Rehearsal / 13. Gather Data With Ongoing Attention to Use / 14. Organize and Present the Data
for Interpretation and Use by Primary Intended Users: Analysis, Interpretation, Judgment, and Recommendations / 15. Prepare an Evaluation Report
to Facilitate Use and Disseminate Signifi cant Findings to Expand Infl uence / 16. Follow Up With Primary Intended Users to Facilitate and Enhance
Use / 17. Metaevaluation of Use: Be Accountable, Learn, and Improve
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-7741-8 • ©2012 • 488 PAGES •
FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR HENRY M. LEVIN
ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN EDUCATION: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefi t-Cost
Analysis THIRD EDITION
Henry M. Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University • Patrick J. McEwan, Wellesley College • Clive
Belfi eld, Queens College, City University of New York • A. Brooks Bowden, NC State University • Robert
Shand, Ohio State University
The updated Third Edition is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to
plan and implement a benefi t-cost analysis in education.
CONTENTS 1. Introduction to Economic Evaluation / 2. Establishing an Analytic Framework / 3. Cost Concepts / 4. The Ingredients Method / 5.
Placing Value on Ingredients / 6. Reporting and Analyzing Costs / 7. Effectiveness / 8. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis / 9. Estimating Benefi ts / 10.
Benefi t-Cost Analysis / 11. Accounting for Uncertainty / 12. Checklist for Economic Evaluations / 13. Economic Evaluation for Education Policy
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4833-8180-0 • ©2018 • 376 PAGES •
Evaluation: General Interest & Key Supplements
EVALUATION FAILURES: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
Edited by: Kylie Hutchinson, Community Solutions, Canada
Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned is a candid collection of stories from
seasoned evaluators from a variety of sectors sharing professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they
learned moving forward. As the only book of its kind, editor Kylie Hutchinson has collected a series of engaging, real-
life examples that are both entertaining and informative.
CONTENTS 1: It's Not Me, It's You: The Value of Addressing Confl ict Head On / 2: The Scope Creep Train Wreck: How responsive evaluation can go
off the rails / 3: The Buffalo Jump: Lessons After the Fall / 4: Evaluator Self-Evaluation: When Self-Flagellation is Not Enough / 5: That Alien Feeling:
Engaging All the Stakeholders in the Universe / 6: Seeds of Failure: How the Evaluation of a West African Agricultural Scale Up Project Went Awry / 7:
I Didn't know I would be a Tightrope Walker Someday: Balancing Evaluator Responsiveness and Independence / 8: When National Pride is Beyond
Facts: Navigating Confl icting Stakeholder Requirements / 9: Stars in Our Eyes: What Happens When Things Are Too Good to be True / 10: A "Failed"
Logic Model: How I Learned to Connect with All Stakeholders / 11: Lost Without You: A Lesson in System Mapping and Engaging Stakeholders / 12:
You Got to Know When to Hold 'em: An Evaluation that went from bad to Worse / 13: The Evaluation from Hell: When Evaluators and Clients Don't
Quite Fit / 14: The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Evaluators: Dealing With Data Collection Surprises in the Field / 15: Are You My Amigo, or My Chero?
/ 16: OMG, Why Can't We Get the Data? A Lesson in Managing Evaluation Expectations / 17: No, Actually, This Project Has to Stop; Learning When
to Pull the Plug / 18: Missing in Action: How Assumption, Language, History and Soft Skills Infl uenced a Cross-cultural Participatory Evaluation /
19: "This is highly illogical": How a Spock Evaluator Learns that Context and Mixed Methods are Everything / 20: The Ripple that Became a Splash:
The Importance of Context and Why I Now Do Data Parties / 21: The Voldemort Evaluation: How I Learned to Survive Organizational Dysfunction,
Confusion, and Distrust / 22: The Only Way Out is Through
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-5443-2000-7 • ©2019 • 184 PAGES • •
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