Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training

by Hallie S Preskill, Darlene Russ-Eft

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, 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.

448 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2015

Reviews

[Robyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice source of ideas for evaluation training. Some exercises were less useful in my graduate level course on evaluation theory, but I still see the utility of all of the exercises in university courses and/or internal capacity building settings.