Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches

This book offers a straightforward, practical introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. It shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, using an original framework. The authors examine the role of evaluation in program development, and offer techniques for involving stakeholders in the planning process and for disseminating the evaluation findings. They use references to recent research and international examples.

John M Owen is Director of the Centre for Program Evaluation at the University of Melbourne. Patricia J Rogers is a Director of the Program for Public Sector Evaluation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of

Technology.