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100			_aMorra-Imas, Linda G. _913341
245	1		_aThe road to results : _bdesigning and conducting effective development evaluations / _cLinda G. Morra Imas, Ray C. Rist.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bWorld Bank, _c2009.
300			_axxii, 582 pages : _billustrations ; _g24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index. _bMorra Imas, L. G., & Rist, R. C. (2009). The road to results : Designing and conducting effective development evaluations. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
505			_aIntroduction -- Foundations -- Chapter 1: Introducing Development Evaluation -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Issues Driving Development Evaluation -- Preparing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations -- Chapter 3: Building a Resuls-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System -- Chapter 4: Understanding the Evaluation Context and the Program Theory of Change -- Chapter 5: Considering the Evaluation Approach -- Designing and Conducting -- Chapter 6: Developing Evaluation Questions and Starting the Design Matrix -- Chapter 7: Selecting Designs for Cause-and-Effect, Descriptive, and Normative Evaluation Questions -- Chapter 8: Selecting and Constructing Data Collection Instruments -- Chapter 9: Choosing the Sampling Strategy -- Chapter 10: Planning for and Conducting Data Analysis -- Meeting Challenges -- Chapter 11: Evaluating Complex Interventions -- Leading -- Chapter 12: Managing an Evaluation -- Chapter 13: Presenting Results -- Chapter 14: Guiding the Evaluator: Evaluation Ethics, Politics, Standards, and Guiding Principles -- Chapter 15: Looking to the Future
520			_aThis comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation. It presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a 'rigorous' quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The book begins with a description of the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing 'Results-based Measurement and Evaluation' and constructing a 'Theory of Change' are emphasized throughout the text. Next, the authors take the reader down 'the road to results', presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a 'Design Matrix' to help map the process. This road includes: determining the overall approach; formulating questions; selecting designs; developing data collection instruments; choosing a sampling strategy; and, planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior - including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation.
650			_aEconomic development _xEvaluation. _922292
700			_aRist, Ray C. _93248
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