Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Free Webinar Series and Resources
Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton, co-authors of the fifth edition of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, are the Mentors in Residence for Methodspace in May 2022. For a discount on their book, use the code: MSPACEQ222.
Want to learn more about evaluation?
Patton and Patton have made an extensive collection of resources available in addition to free monthly webinars.
Read the first two chapters of the book here.
Free Utilization-Focused Evaluation webinars are held each month. See coming events here, and register here.
Online resources to accompany the 5th edition can be found here.
Articles are available here.
Videos are here, and recorded webinars and podcasts here.
More Methodspace posts about evaluation
In this guest post Jane Shore and Sarah Singer Quast remind us of the importance of bridging research and practice, and give specific recommendations.
Tips on assessing a course to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.
This collection of open-access articles offers a range of strategies for evaluating your research project and process.
Want to learn more about evaluation? Looking for resources for students? Check out these articles, videos, and a free webinar series from Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton.
In this interview one of co-authors of Evaluation: A Systematic Approach discusses evaluative practices.
Find over 100 resources on evaluation: books, cases, and videos, on SAGE Research Methods.
Open-access articles about cultural issues and implications for evaluative studies.
What ethical issues arise in evaluation? Find examples and recommendations in this collection of open-access articles.
Academic evaluation regimes set up to quantify the quality of research, individual scholars, and institutions have been widely criticized for the detrimental effects they have on academic environments and on knowledge production itself. Max Fochler and Sarah de Rijcke recently called for a more exploratory, less standardized way of doing research evaluation, with the introduction of the concept of the evaluative inquiry.
Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton answer some questions about their work as evaluators and as a father-daughter co-author team.
Read about this co-creative project and methodologies for evaluating its success.
This collection of posts from the archives features posts by Steve Wallis and Bernadette Wright, authors of “Practical Mapping for Applied Research and Program Evaluation.”
Learn about the What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who? of evaluation from Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton.
The May 2022 focus is on evaluation.
Crossing into new literature in unfamiliar fields, disciplines, methodologies, or cultures? Learn to evaluate it!
Action research and evaluation are inter-related topics in this guest post and video from Marina Apgar and Mieke Snijder.
Q & A about evaluation with Steve Wallis and Bernadette Peters
This post is the second of four Q & A posts with Bernadette Wright and Steve Wallis.
Tips on grading and marking to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.