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RealWorld Evaluation : 3rd Edition - Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political  Constraints - J. Michael Bamberger

RealWorld Evaluation

3rd Edition - Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

By: J. Michael Bamberger, Linda S. Mabry

Paperback | 5 September 2019 | Edition Number 3

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RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The text is organized around the authors' seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation implementers and managers make the best choices when faced with real world constraints.

New to this edition:

  • A new chapter focusing on gender equality and women's empowerment provides an overview of approaches for assessing program impacts and helping readers achieve a conceptual understanding of these issues.
  • Coverage of Digital technology and Data science is now included to explore the opportunities and challenges in building bridges between data scientists and development evaluators and offer insights on ethical and responsible data practices.
  • Increased coverage of themes regarding complexity, emergence, issue of agency, and implications of equity has been added throughout.
  • Equity issues are discussed throughout to emphasize the need for a complexity-focused evaluation methodology and expand readers' knowledge of these programs.
About the Authors

Michael Bamberger has been involved in development evaluation for fifty years. Beginning in Latin America where he worked in urban community development and evaluation for over a decade, he became interested in the coping strategies of low-income communities, how they were affected by and how they influenced development efforts.

Linda Mabry is a faculty member at Washington State University specializing in program evaluation, student assessment, and research and evaluation methodology. She currently serves as president of the Oregon Program Evaluation Network and on the editorial board for Studies in Educational Evaluation.
Industry Reviews

"This book moves the study of evaluation from the theoretical to the practical, so that evaluators can improve their work. It deals with most of the real issues that evaluators face, particularly at the international level."


-- John Mathiason

"This is one of the most practical textbooks in the field of evaluation that I have encountered. Its recognition of the limitations that affect program evaluation provides students with a realistic understanding of the difficulties in conducting evaluations and how to overcome these difficulties."


-- David C. Powell

"RealWorld Evaluation moves forward from where other evaluation textbooks stop. RWE challenges the evaluator to ask the difficult questions that can impact the design, implementation, and utilization of the evaluation. RWE then leads the reader through how to find efficient solutions to minimize these constraints."


-- Karen McDonnell

"RealWorld Evaluation is a must-read for students of program evaluation-the framework and emphasis on practical constraints makes it an invaluable tool for learning the art and science of public policy.


-- Amanda Olejarski

"This is an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced evaluators. It contains a variety of tools and recommendations to successfully design and implement effective evaluations for any size and type of program."


-- Sebastian Galindo

"Any research class focusing on real-world evaluation should start with this text; it is comprehensive, well-organized, well-written, and thoroughly practical."


-- Jeffrey S. Savage

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