Patton, Michael Quinn <br/><br/>
Utilization-focused evaluation :  the new century text / 
por Michael Quinn Patton. -- 
 - 3. ed. 
 - California :  Sage,  1997. 
 - xvi, 431 p. 
<br/><br/> Part 1. Toward more useful evaluations  1. Evaluation use: both challenge and mandate  2. What is utilization-focused evaluation? How do you get started?  3. Fostering intended use by intended users: the personal factor  4. Intended uses of findings  5. Intended process uses: impacts of evaluation thinking and experiences  Part 2. Focusing evaluations: choices, options, and decisions  6. Being active-reactive-adaptive: evaluator roles, situational responsiveness, and strategic contigency thinking  7. Beyond the goals clarification game: focusing on outcomes  8. Focusing an evaluation: alternatives to goals-based evaluation  9. Implementation evaluation: what happened in the program?  10. The program's theory of action: conceptualizing causal linkages  Part 3. Appropriate methods  11. Evaluations worth using:utilization-focused methods decisions  12. The paradigms debate and a utilitarian synthesis  13. Deciphering data and reporting results: analysis, interpretations, judgements, and recommendations  Part 4. Realities and practicalities of utilization-focused evaluation  14. Power, politics,and ethics  15. Utilization-focused evaluation: process and premises 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803952651 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Política Social<br/>Programas Sociais<br/>Avaliação de Projetos