Evaluation failures 22 tales of mistakes made and lessons learned / Kylie Hutchinson, editor ; foreword by Michael Quinn Patton.
| Other author | Hutchinson, Kylie. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Los Angeles : SAGE [2019] |
| Description | xviii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SAGE Research Methods Core |
| Subjects |
| Contents | It?s not me, it's you : the value of addressing conflict head on / Corey Newhouse -- The scope creep train wreck : how responsive evaluation can go off the rails / E Davidson -- The buffalo jump : lessons after the fall / Gail Barrington -- Evaluator self-evaluation : when self-flagellation is not enough / Emma Williams -- That alien feeling : engaging all the stakeholders in the universe / Hallie Preskill -- Seeds of failure : how the evaluation of a west african agricultural scale up project went awry / Thomas Archibald -- I didn't know i would be a tightrope walker someday : balancing evaluator responsiveness and independence / Rakesh Mohan -- When national pride is beyond facts : navigating conflicting stakeholder requirements / Felix Muramutsa -- Stars in our eyes : what happens when things are too good to be true / Jara Dean-Coffey -- A "failed" logic model : how i learned to connect with all stakeholders / Chris Lovato -- Lost without you : a lesson in system mapping and engaging stakeholders / Kylie Hutchinson -- You got to know when to hold 'em : an evaluation that went from bad to worse -- Robert shepherd -- The evaluation from hell : when evaluators and clients don?t quite fit / Marla Steinberg -- The best laid plans of mice and evaluators : dealing with data collection surprises in the field / Janice Noga -- Are you my amigo, or my chero? / Isaac Castillo -- Omg, why can't we get the data? : a lesson in managing evaluation expectations / Jennifer Bisgard and Mary Pat Selveggio -- No, actually, this project has to stop : learning when to pull the plug / Karen Snyder -- Missing in action : how assumption, language, history and soft skills influenced a cross-cultural participatory evaluation / Susan Igras -- "This is highly illogical" : how a spock evaluator learns that context and mixed methods are everything / Benoit Gauthier -- The ripple that became a splash : the importance of context and why i now do data parties / Diana Tindall -- The voldemort evaluation : how i learned to survive organizational dysfunction, confusion, and distrust / Lisa O?Reilly -- The only way out is through / Stephanie Evergreen. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018021805 |
| ISBN | 9781544320007 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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