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...

Thinking has, for many of us, become as passive as breathing.While it's essential to our very exi...

Thinking has, for many of us, become as passive as breathing.While it's essential to our very exi...

The Fifth Edition of the bestselling Utilization-Focused Evaluation provides expert, detailed adv...

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...