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Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry de Hallie S. Preskill

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry

Autor Hallie S. Preskill, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2006
Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Practices is written in a clear and accessible style that appeals to those new to appreciate inquiry and evaluation, as well as those who are familiar with one or both disciplines. It includes numerous international case examples that demonstrate the use of appreciative inquiry in evaluations; a matrix of cases to help users easily locate particular types of case studies and identify the contexts in which those studies took place; and a comprehensive bibliography featuring a web resources area.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412909518
ISBN-10: 1412909511
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"I enjoyed the book.  I found the approach refreshing and useful.  The structure of the book made the argument easy to follow...Practitioners of evaluation, or any organizational change process, will find the approach useful.

Cuprins

Table of Case Examples
Preface
Prologue: Choosing an Evaluation Path
1. Introducing Appreciative Inquiry
2. Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation Practice
3. Focusing the Evaluation Using Appreciative Inquiry
4. Designing and Conducting Interviews and Surveys Using Appreciative Inquiry
5. Using Appreciative Inquiry to Develop Evaluation Systems
6. Building Evaluation Capacity Through Appreciative Inquiry
Epilogue: Crossing Boundaries and Evaluation Innovation
Appendix: Using Appreciative Inquiry at Evergreen Cove by Laverne Webb and Sherry Rockey
References
Index
About the Authors

Notă biografică

Hallie Preskill, PhD. is a Managing Director with FSG, a global nonprofit strategy, evaluation, and research consulting firm (since 2009), and leads the firm¿s Strategic Learning and Evaluation practice. In her role as a senior advisor, she works on a wide variety of evaluation and learning projects. Sample clients include the Kresge Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, Knight Foundation, The California Endowment, Missouri Foundation for Health, Norlien Foundation, Packard Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Blue Shield of CA Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She has helped evaluate a wide range of initiatives and programs related to community information needs, substance abuse, early learning, poverty, arts and culture, teacher professional development, domestic and sexual violence, economic development, youth and education, and healthcare. 


Prior to joining FSG, Hallie spent more than 20 years in academia, teaching graduate level courses in program evaluation, training design and development, organizational learning, appreciative inquiry and consulting. Her research has focused on evaluation capacity building, transfer of learning/training, evaluation use, and evaluation as a catalyst for individual, team, and organizational learning. Hallie¿s other books include: Reframing Evaluation through Appreciative Inquiry (2006, with T. Catsambas), Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance & Change (2001, 2009, with D. Russ-Eft), Evaluation Strategies for Effective Strategies for Communicating and Reporting (2005, with R. T. Torres and M. Piontek), and Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (1999, with R. T. Torres), and Becoming the Change: What One Organization Working To Transform Educational Systems Learned About Team Learning and Change (2011, with R. Babiera).

Hallie was the 2007 President of the American Evaluation Association. She received the American Evaluation Association¿s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional Practice in 2002 and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. Hallie holds a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Descriere

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry is the first book to introduce the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), an approach for organizational development and change, to the practice of evaluation. Authors Hallie Preskill and Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas lay out the theoretical foundation of AI and build a bridge between the theory and practice of applying AI to evaluation.