Do your communicating and reporting strategies seem outdated? Are you looking for ways to communicate more effectively?
The Second Edition of Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations
helps full-time evaluators and those with evaluation responsibilities successfully plan, conduct, communicate,
and report the findings of evaluations using creative techniques. This comprehensive book is designed to help evaluators
facilitate understanding, learning, and evaluation use among individuals, groups, and organizations by communicating
and reporting more effectively. It guides the reader through the phases of an evaluation, from early planning stages
through the final reporting and follow-up.
Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting has been thoroughly revised and updated creating 75% new
material and 34 new case examples. The Second Edition provides worksheets and instructions for creating a detailed
communicating and reporting plan based on audience needs and characteristics. Authors Rosalie T. Torres, Hallie
Preskill, and Mary E. Piontek cover advances in technology including Web site communications, Web and videoconferencing,
and Internet chat rooms. Also mentioned are several additional topics for consideration, including communicating
and reporting for diverse audiences and for multi-site evaluations.
This book is intended for graduate program evaluation students in departments of education, public policy, and
organizational studies. Managers, researchers, practitioners and anyone responsible for designing, conducting,
or managing evaluations will find this book invaluable.
New to this Edition:
New creative coverage of communicating and reporting techniques by way of photography, cartoons, poetry, and
drama in formative evaluations
New coverage of how to communicate evaluation processes and interim findings to stakeholders during the evaluation
New coverage of the use of technology in communicating and reporting evaluations, illustrated with examples,
and complimented by guidelines, tips, and cautions for using these high-tech formats
Actual examples from well-known evaluators that illustrate various communicating and reporting techniques
A recap of how the latest information on learning processes mediates the way that readers and stakeholders
assimilate and use information
