Assessment, Research 

Would you like to provide meaningful evaluation results in a way that is useful for program improvements and decisions? If you said YES, that’s the essential first step. Now, if you’re able to embed fun into the evaluation process, just think about the impact those findings can have on program improvement and decision making! If you have conducted or participated in an evaluation that did not help improve your program in some way, was the evaluation really worth it? We, as evaluators and evaluation recipients, can do better than that! I hope, through reading this book, that you will find at least one idea or tool that you can use in your work to make evaluation more engaging, meaningful, and useful to everyone involved.I promise to keep this conversational and accessible for all. I will focus on the practical application of evaluation knowledge and present it in an engaging way. Most importantly, I hope to help you realize that evaluation – all aspects of it – can be FUN. Seriously! You can have fun while you work, and you can help others enjoy implementing and learning about evaluation. Think about how exciting it is to uncover patterns and find logical connections through the data. It’s professionally and personally invigorating to get together with people who share a common goal and help them improve what they’re doing to reach that goal. Don’t you love the facial expressions and ideas that come in that A-HA moment a client has when brainstorming in an evaluation meeting, reading an evaluation report, or practically applying what the data have suggested? The process of evaluation already is fun, all we have to do is unlock your creativity so you can help share the enthusiasm you already have for evaluation with the rest of the world! - from Amzon