Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation (by Michael Quinn Patton) will be released this month from Sage Publications!

The new book on U-FE is a concise summary of his popular book, Utilization-Focused Evaluation (4th edition). Patton takes the reader through 17 steps of Utilization-focused evaluation from situational analysis (Step 1) to meta-evaluation of evaluation use (Step 17). Each chapter includes case study examples to show how evaluation theory/approach is applied in various program contexts.

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