Principles-Focused Evaluation: The Guide (Paperback)

I. Principles: What They Are, Why They Matter, and Their Niche in Program Development and Evaluation
1. First Principles
2. Effectiveness Principles: What? Why? When? How? Who? Where?
3. Examples of Principles-Driven Change Initiatives and Programs
4. Evaluating Principles: Historical Context and Forward-Looking Challenge
5. The Niche and Nature of Principles-Focused Evaluation: Serving Diverse Purposes
II. GUIDE: Criteria for Effectiveness Principles
6. GUIDE for PRINCIPLES: The Characteristics of High-Quality Effectiveness Principles
G: Guidance
7. Guidance for Developing and Distinguishing Principles: Principles versus Rules, and the Alternative Principles Test
8. Referring to Something as a Principle Doesn't Make It One: Distinguishing Effectiveness Principles
9. Still More Guidance on Developing and Distinguishing Principles: Principles Derived from and Contrasted with Assumptions, Truths, and Lessons
10. Conceptual Triangulation: Evaluating the Similarities of Parallel Principles
11. Holistic, Sequential, and Pole Star Approaches to Principles
U: Useful
12. Principles Point the Way to Desired Results
13. Diverse Uses of Principles across an Organization, Nora F. Murphy & Heather Huseby
14. Evaluating the Utility of Research-Derived Principles for Enhancing Online Learning
I: Inspiring
15. Inspirational Principles Are Infused with Values
16. Principles-Focused Evaluation at the Grassroots in Africa: Inspirational Examples and Reflections, John Wilson
17. Inspiring Principles: Distinguishing Overarching Principles from Operational Principles, Charmagne Campbell-Patton
18. Principles-Focused Pedagogy of Evaluation: Inspired by Freirean Pedagogy
D: Developmental
19. The Developmental Nature of Effectiveness Principles: A Case Example of Adapting Principles in Practice, Yve Susskind & Peggy Holman
20. Simple Rules and Minimum Specifications: Spotlight on Complexity Concepts with Developmental Implications
E: Evaluable
21. Evaluable Principles: Methods and Measures for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Principles
22. Principles-Focused Sampling
23. Rendering Judgments about the Effectiveness of Principles
24. Evaluating Principles for Evidence of Effectiveness: Three Kinds of Evidence-Based Judgments and Effective Principles in Contrast to Best Practices
Summary of Parts I and II: Major Themes of Principles-Focused Evaluation
III. Principles-Driven Initiatives with Principles-Focused Evaluations: Exemplars of Principles in Practice
III-A.Three Levels of Principles-Based Interventions: Macro (Global), Micro (Program), and Meso (Community)
25. Principles Driving Reform: Evaluation of the Paris Declaration Principles on Aid Effectiveness
26. Discovering and Validating Effectiveness Principles to Help Youth Overcome Homelessness
27. Vibrant Communities Canada: A Principles-Driven Systems Change Initiative and Emergent Example of Principles-Focused Evaluation Potential
Part III-B. Three Different Agriculture-Focused Initiatives
28. Collaborative Principles Supporting Shared Commitment: The Global Alliance for the Future of Food
29. Principles Enhancing Coherence: The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program
30. Principles Defining a Field of Agroecology: How Principles Inform and GUIDE Practices
IV. Principles for Evaluations and Evaluators
31. Evaluating Evaluation Principles: Examining Principles That Guide Evaluations and Evaluators
32. Outcome Harvesting Evaluation: Practical Application of Essential Principles, Ricardo Wilson-Grau
33. Reflections of a Principles-Focused Evaluator: What's in a Name?, Donna Podems
34. Waking Lumina: A Personal Principles-Based Evaluation Philosophy, Nora F. Murphy
V. Principles-Focused Evaluation in Practice: Tools and Checklist
35. Tools for Principles-Focused Evaluation
36. Principles-Focused Evaluation Checklist
Conclusion and Final Practice Exercise
Epilogue: Eleven Questions, Eleven Principles-Focused Responses