Book Review: Title: Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training
| Published date | 01 December 2017 |
| Author | Brent Turner |
| Date | 01 December 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1035719X1701700406 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
B O O K R E V I E W Evaluation Journal of Australasia Vol 17 | No 4 | 2017 | p p . 5 0 – 5 1
Title: Building evaluation capacity: Activities for teaching and training
■ Authors
Hallie Preskill and Darlene Russ-Eft
■ Publisher/year
SAGE Publications, 2016 (second edition)
■ Extent/type
448 pages, paperback
■ Price
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■ ISBN
9781483334325
Hallie Preskill, PhD. is a Managing Director with FSG,
The content includes activities intended to cover the
a global non-profit strategy, evaluation, and research
entire gamut of evaluation, including: understanding
consulting firm, and leads the firm’s Strategic Learning
what evaluation is; the politics and ethics; the influence
and Evaluation practice. Hallie was the 2007 President of
of culture; various models, approaches and designs;
the American Evaluation Association.
data collection and analysis methods; communicating
and reporting progress and findings; and, building and
Darlene Russ-Eft, PhD, is Professor and Discipline Liaison
sustaining support.
of Adult Education and Higher Education Leadership in
the College of Education at Oregon State University.
In most cases, each topic has a number of activities to
help promote its understanding. Each activity includes
While the authors have published extensively on building
an overview, instructional objectives, optimal number of
evaluation capacity, this book is somewhat unique as
participants, range of time required, materials needed,
it is a set of exercises designed to facilitate learning. I
primary instructional method, supporting handouts and
was hopeful this text would be a valuable resource in
procedures for facilitators. This is further supported by a
addressing this requirement...
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