Creative Evaluation

Creative Evaluation is both entertaining and stimulating reading for the practising evaluator looking for fruitful new ways of approaching evaluation research, training and consultation. The author's basic themes include the necessity for evaluators to recognize the limitations of routine response patterns, the value of situational responsiveness and the need to test new approaches and perspectives. Patton has few packaged answers on creativity; rather, he lets readers discover their own creative potential by guiding them towards expanding their options through a new awareness of the standard operating procedures evaluators fall back on and their usual way of doing things. This revised second edition is geared more closely to the professional evaluator than the first edition. It includes vivid new examples while retaining the same unique process-oriented approach -- and the same humour. A review of the First Edition: 'Patton brings to the frustrated, joyless or just plain tired evaluator an entertaining and stimulating book... This book is worth reading just for its lively, humorous and thought provoking collection of quotes about evaluation and much more.' -- Evaluation Division NewsletterPatton, Michael Q. is the author of 'Creative Evaluation' with ISBN 9780803930568 and ISBN 0803930569.