TY - BOOK AU - Preskill,Hallie S. AU - Russ-Eft,Darlene F. TI - Building evaluation capacity: activities for teaching and training SN - 9781483334325 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - AZ 191 .P926 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Evaluation KW - Methodology KW - Performance standards N1 - 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 N2 - Provides 89 highly structured activities which encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies ER -