Realworld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

By Michael W. Garza

This book addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and the agencies face budget and time constraints and where critical data is missing. The book is organized around a seven-step model developed by the authors, which has been tested and refined in workshops. Vignettes and case studies--representing evaluations from a variety of geographic regions and sectors--demonstrate adaptive possibilities for small projects with budgets of a few thousand dollars to large-scale, long-term evaluations. The text incorporates quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs and this Second Edition reflects important developments in the field over the last five years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412979625
• ISBN13: 9781412979627
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 712 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read

This is the a must read for any investors. It is, however, quite difficult for beginners to comprehend, though. At least I didn't understand it quite well until after I took Corporate Finance, Accounting, etc... and studied for my CFA exam. I'd recommend beginners read Graham's "The Intelligent Investor", which help create a concrete basis of your investment philosophy.

Must read for value investors

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Security Analysis 1940 edition

If you have read The Intelligent Investor, and want a text that will expand and delve deeper into fundamental analysis, this book is for you. The separation between this book, and books similar in content, is the fact that Graham shows examples of his applied techniques. The book is broken down into two main sections, fixed value investments(bonds, preferred stocks, ect.) and common stock analysis/selection. He takes you...

Everything after 1934 looks suspicious

Someone wrote reviews to this book indicating that the major downside to it is its age. The book was written in 1934 therefore it misses all the modern developments of finance - modern portfolio theory for example - and all the new techniques that Wall Street "experts" use today.As an answer I give an anecdote from Warren Buffett's life:When stock investments started to become popular, the volume increased ten fold, and the...

the Von Clausewitz of the investment world...

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