Purposeful Evaluation

A Practical Guide to Design, Development and Delivery
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7612-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation.

With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills. This book addresses those gaps, offering step-by-step guidance on designing and delivering fit-for-purpose evaluations to maximise their use and utility. Taking a holistic approach to the evaluation journey, it covers key challenges such as engaging stakeholders, managing expectations and handling resource pressures.

With real-world case studies and practical tools, this is an essential resource for practitioners across public, academic and voluntary sectors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsons, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Starting Points

1. Why Purposeful Evaluation?

Part 2: Setting the Foundations

2. Defining the purpose

3. Managing evaluation objectives and expectations

4. Managing the ethical dimension

Part 3: Choosing the Right Method

5. Understanding the choices

6. Process evaluation

7. Economic evaluation

8. Fully experimental impact evaluation

9. Quasi experimental impact evaluation

10. Theory-based impact evaluation

11. Meta-evaluation

Part 4: Putting it in Place - Preparation into Delivery

12. Preparation and groundwork

13. Managing challenges and delivery

Part 5: Presenting and Mobilising Evidence

14. Delivering the evidence

15. Optimising evaluation influence

Über Autor(innen)

Parsons, David
David Parsons is Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University, Principal Consultant at P&A Research and Consulting. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, he was appointed to the UK government’s Evaluation Trial and Advice Panel in 2023.