TY - BOOK AU - Bamberger, Michael. TI - RealWorld evaluation: working under budget, time, data, and political constraints SN - 9781412979627 U1 - 001.4BAM PY - 2012/// CY - Thousand Oaks PB - SAGE KW - Evaluation research (Social action programs)--Developing countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes N2 - This book addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and the agencies face budget and time constraints and where critical data is missing. The book is organized around a seven-step model developed by the authors, which has been tested and refined in workshops. Vignettes and case studies―representing evaluations from a variety of geographic regions and sectors―demonstrate adaptive possibilities for small projects with budgets of a few thousand dollars to large-scale, long-term evaluations. The text incorporates quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs ER -