Personalizing Evaluation Book

Personalizing Evaluation challenges the mainstream approach to program evaluation by inverting the traditional relationship between program and person. Rather than emphasize the program as the context within which to `read' people's lives and to measure their significance, we should document individual and group experience and use this as a lens through which to read social programs and to measure their significance in people's lives. The book uses a wealth of examples and case studies to illustrate how a deeper understanding of program evaluation can be achieved across a range of issues and applications.The author addresses these three principal concerns that are at the heart of the evaluation process: how to learn about evaluation in ways which are related to the often confusing and messy experience of doing it; how to understand the role of evaluation as a form of personal expression and, even, political action; and how to use evaluation to say something about people's lives as well as about the programs and institutions people are involved in.Read More