TY - BOOK AU - Shaw, Ian F , ed. TI - The SAGE handbook of evaluatiuon SN - 9780761973058 U1 - 300 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE Publications KW - Evaluation KW - Utvärderingsmetodik N1 - PART ONE: ROLE AND PURPOSE OF EVALUATION IN SOCIETY The Purposes of Evaluation in a Democratic Society; Roles for Theory in Contemporary Evaluation Practice; Developing Practical Knowledge Evaluation for Practice Improvement and Organizational Learning; Evaluation and the Study of Lived Experience; Evaluation, Democracy and Social Change; Evaluation after Disenchantment? Five Issues Shaping the Role of Evaluation in Society -- PART TWO: EVALUATION AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE Government as Structural Context for Evaluation; The Social Relations of Evaluation; Intellectual Contexts; The Relationship between Evaluation and Politics; Ethics in Evaluation; A Comparative Analysis of Evaluation Utilization and Its Cognate Fields of Inquiry; Current Issues and Trends Contextual Challenges for Evaluation Practice -- PART THREE: THE PRACTICE OF EVALUATION Methods for Policymaking and Knowledge Development Evaluations; Embedding Improvements, Lived Experience and Social Justice in Evaluation Practice; Managing Evaluations; Communicating Evaluation; On Discerning Quality in Evaluation; The Practice of Evaluation: Challenges and New Directions -- PART FOUR: DOMAINS OF EVALUATION PRACTICE Evaluation in Education; Evaluation of Health Services: Reflections on Practice; Social Work and the Human Services; Evaluation in Criminal Justice; Evaluation of Development Interventions and Humanitarian Action; Evidence-Based Evaluation in Different Professional Domains : Similarities, Differences and Challenges ER -