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      Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles

      Michael Quinn Patton

      As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues.

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      Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

      Michael Quinn Patton

      Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows…

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      Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles

      Michael Quinn Patton

      As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues.

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      Practical Evaluation

      Michael Quinn Patton

      Patton demonstrates that the main failing of most evaluations is a lack of practicality. They fail to be cheap, accurate, attuned to the differences between different programmes or to provide…

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      Family Sexual Abuse: Frontline Research and Evaluation

      This volume contains a series of essays which describe the results of recent research projects on sexual abuse within families. Emphasis is placed on the true impact of intervention as…

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      Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice

      Michael Quinn Patton

      The book that has been a resource and training tool for countless researchers and students has been completely revised in its Fourth Edition with hundreds of new examples and stories…

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      Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation

      Michael Quinn Patton

      Based on Michael Quinn Patton’s Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed ‘essentials’ book provides both an overall framework and concrete advice for how to conduct useful evaluations that…

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      Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice

      Michael Quinn Patton

      Michael Quinn Patton’s Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders, using the…

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      How to Use Qualitative Methods in Evaluation

      Michael Quinn Patton

      This bestselling text reflects the growing use of qualitative techniques in the evaluation process. The author differentiates the qualitative approach in method and philosophy from more traditional quantitative methods and…

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      Grand Canyon Celebration: A Father-Son Journey of Discovery

      Michael Quinn Patton

      Written in the tradition of The Man Who Walked Through Time , and Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , this title presents the story of the author’s remarkable…

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      Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations: Action Theory to Solve Adaptive Problems

      Jerald Hage

      Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how…

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      Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations: Action Theory to Solve Adaptive Problems

      Jerald Hage

      Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how…

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      Utilization-Focused Evaluation

      Michael Quinn Patton,Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton

      This skilfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator Michael Quinn Patton provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice.

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      Thought Work: Thinking, Action, and the Fate of the World

      Minnich and Patton gather an eclectic cohort of thought-leaders to reflect on the importance and intricacies of thinking in their respective fields. Philosophically framed and interdisciplinary in approach, this illuminating…

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      Thought Work: Thinking, Action, and the Fate of the World

      Minnich and Patton gather an eclectic cohort of thought-leaders to reflect on the importance and intricacies of thinking in their respective fields. Philosophically framed and interdisciplinary in approach, this illuminating…

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      Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice

      Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to evaluate innovative…

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      Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice

      Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality developmental evaluation (DE) case studies. Twelve insightful exemplars illustrate how DE is used to evaluate innovative…

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      Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

      Michael Quinn Patton,Ann Doucette,Hallie Preskill,Barbara Zimmerman,John Bare

      Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows…

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      Bundle: Patton: Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods 4e + Schwandt: The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry 4e

      Michael Quinn Patton,Thomas A Schwandt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA)

      This bundle includes Patton: Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods 4e and Schwandt: The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry 4e

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      Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE

      Michael Quinn Patton,Nora Murphy Johnson,Heather Huseby,John Wilson,Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton

      How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles–and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the…

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      Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE

      Michael Quinn Patton,Nora Murphy Johnson,Heather Huseby,John Wilson,Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton

      How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles–and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the…

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      Transformative Research and Evaluation

      Donna M. Mertens,Gary W. Harper,Katrina L. Bledsoe,Michael Quinn Patton,John Creswell

      From distinguished scholar Donna M. Mertens, this book provides a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. The transformative paradigm has emerged from&

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