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Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting : Enhancing Learning in Organizations
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting Enhancing Learning in Organizations Author:Rosalie T. Torres, Hallie Preskill, Mary Piontek "This is a book that will help you plan, do, and report a good evaluation. The book provides a model for doing evaluation in a way that helps individuals and the organizations in which they work to grow and improve. . . . I like that the authors have embedded the discussion of and strategies for communicating evaluation within a well-articulated... more » framework of evaluation. The early chapters do a very nice job of providing a context for thinking about communication that then creates a coherent whole by the books end. . . . You should get Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reportingits a valuable resource." --Sandra Mathison, School of Education, State University of New York, Albany"This book is about how to enhance communication and reporting of evaluation evidence. It places these important tasks of evaluation in the context of organizational learning that means evaluators can best communicate and report with strong collaborative arrangement. This is essentially a technique-oriented book, but places communication skills in an important context, which is one of understanding the organization and the need to make sure that the evidence collected from these techniques is utilized. . . . Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting has an ample number of examples and practical advice, and it places the role of the evaluator within a larger context of organizational learning." --Larry Braskamp, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago"I like the consultative approach of writing and I believe it is very appropriate for a book on this topic. I especially liked the coverage on changing organizations, internal evaluation, and the roles of the evaluator."--John C. Ory, Office of Instructional Resources,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"The examples and orienting questions provide clarity and are especially helpful to novice evaluators."--M. Jean Young, Ph.D. MJ Young & Associates"Rather than prolong the debate on method, the authors make meaningful claims in support of the integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches as the more viable means to evaluate complex problems in complex organizations framed by critical reflection about processes, practices, and outcomes."--Linda Ware, Affiliated Programs Office, Kansas UniversityWhat communicating and reporting strategies best serve individual and organizational learning? How can these strategies be implemented? This thoughtfully written book answers these questions by providing a model for evaluating in a way that helps individuals and organizations grow and improve. Aimed at helping evaluators facilitate individual, team, and organizational learning by communicating and reporting more effectively, Evaluation Strategies for Communicatingand Reporting shows the steps to improve communication through all phases of an evaluation--from planning to final report and follow-up. It provides practical tips and useful examples for people who work exclusively as evaluators and for those who have program management responsibilities that include evaluation. Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting will prove an invaluable asset for evaluators and those with evaluation responsibilities to better plan, conduct, communicate about, and report evaluations findings.« less