My rating of three stars is based on the product description, which also appears on the back cover of the book:
"Program Evaluation offers a conceptual yet straightforward and practical overview of the evaluation process for both beginners and experienced practitioners."
I would not describe this book as a 'practical overview'. It is certainly not the case that you could read the book and then plan an evaluation of any kind. The book gives an excellent and very useful theoretical taxonomy of types, or forms, of evaluation. As a theoretical taxonomy, I would rate the book with four stars. For each of these forms, the book suggests different methods that could be used to achieve the purposes of the particular form. The descriptions of the methods are quite varied. Some are reasonably detailed, others very skeletal. There is not enough detail in any of them to serve as the basis for planning an evaluation, though Owen does give references which can be followed up for further detail and examples.
As a typology, the book is useful. As a practical guide, much less so.
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Gordon Eldridge
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2014Verified Purchase
