This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contrib...

Patton demonstrates that the main failing of most evaluations is a lack of practicality. They fai...

Responding to evaluator and instructor demand, this book presents a diverse set of high-quality d...

Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and progra...

How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whethe...

Michael Quinn Patton’s Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its k...

How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whethe...

When his son Brandon was born, author Michael Quinn Patton began pondering how best to celebrate ...

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social inno...

Developmental Evaluation Exemplars

As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions th...

Based on Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization Focused Evaluation, this briefer and more condensed '...