4th Edition

Everyday Evaluation on the Run The User-Friendly Introductory Guide to Effective Evaluation

By Yoland Wadsworth Copyright 2026
190 Pages 84 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 84 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 84 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Effective evaluation can provide valuable insights into the way a program, a course or an organisation is being run, and direction for improvement. This widely used introduction to evaluation is intended for non-specialists in the human services who need to do evaluation as part of a busy workload. Everyday Evaluation on the Run offers a practical overview of the main approaches to... Read more

Foreword
List of guides, diagrams, tables and figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Preamble
1. Introduction
2. A Conceptual Framework
3. Two Approaches to Evaluation
4. Doing Evaluation
5. The Evaluation Industry's Toolbox
6. Some Reading

Biography

Yoland Wadsworth is a pathbreaker in research methodology and its use in evaluation in health, community and human services for over forty years. She has been an evaluator and evaluation consultant and facilitator in community-based non-government organisations and self-help groups, and for state, federal and local governments; Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne, and deputy to the Director of the Policy & Research Branch in Premier & Cabinet, Victorian government. She is a Fellow and Life Member of the Australian Evaluation Society. She is also author of the best-selling Do It Yourself Social Research and culminating magnum opus, Human Inquiry for Living Systems: Building in Research and Evaluation for Life.

‘Practical, useful counsel emanates throughout. Impressively grounded in real world experiences.’

Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation


‘Yoland Wadsworth’s Everyday Evaluation on the Run is a timeless and accessible guide that continues to equip practitioners with the clarity and confidence to integrate meaningful evaluation into their everyday work, even in the most complex and time-pressured contexts.’

Dr Leanne Kelly, Deakin University, Australian Red Cross, Author of Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations and Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits