Revised edition of the authors' Building evaluation capacity, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Matrix of activities -- Glossary of instructional methods -- Strategies for forming small groups -- Overview of evaluation -- The politics and ethics of evaluation practice -- Culture and evaluation -- Focusing the evaluation -- Evaluation models, approaches, and designs -- Issues of validity and sampling -- Collecting evaluation data -- Analyzing evaluation data -- Communicating and reporting evaluation processes and findings -- Managing the evaluation -- Building and sustaining support for evaluation -- Reflections on learning -- About the authors.

The Second Edition of Building Evaluation Capacity provides 89 highly structured activities which require minimal instructor preparation and encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Ideal for use in program evaluation courses, professional development workshops, and organization stakeholder trainings, authors Hallie Preskill and Darlene Russ-Eft cover the entire process of evaluation, including: understanding what evaluation is; the politics and ethics; the influence of culture; various models, approaches and designs; data collection and analysis methods; communicating and reporting progress and findings; and building and sustaining support. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, minimum and maximum number of participants, range of time required, materials needed, primary instructional method, and procedures for facilitators to help learners in the most common evaluation practices.