Part I: Introduction
1. Examining the Backbone of Contemporary Evaluation Practice: Credible and Actionable Evidence - Stewart I. Donaldson
2. Social Inquiry Paradigms as a Frame for the Debate on Credible Evidence - Christina A. Christie and Dreolin Fleischer
3. How People Judge the Credibility of Information: Lessons for Evaluation From Cognitive and Information Sciences - Robin Lin Miller
Part II: Credible and Actionable Evidence: The Role of Randomized Experiments
4. When Getting It Right Matters: The Struggle for Rigorous Evidence of Impact and to Increase Its Influence Continues - Gary T. Henry
5. Randomized Controlled Trials: A Gold Standard or Gold Plated? - Leonard Bickman and Stephanie M. Reich
6. Demythologizing Causation and Evidence - Michael Scriven
Part III: Credible and Actionable Evidence: Perspectives From a Range of Evaluation Designs and Methods
7. When and How Qualitative Methods Provide Credible and Actionable Evidence: Reasoning With Rigor, Probity, and Transparency - Sharon F. Rallis
8. Seeing Is Believing: Using Images as Evidence in Evaluation - Sandra Mathison
9. Credibility, Policy Use, and the Evaluation Synthesis - Eleanor Chelimsky
Part IV: Credible and Actionable Evidence: General Perspectives
10. How Evidence Earns Credibility in Evaluation - Jennifer C. Greene
11. Actionable Evidence in Context: Contextual Influences on Adequacy and Appropriateness of Method Choice in Evaluation - George Julnes and Debra Rog
12. Credible Evidence of Effectiveness: Necessary but Not Sufficient - Thomas A. Schwandt
13. Credible and Actionable Evidence: A Framework, Overview, and Suggestions for Future Practice and Research - Melvin M. Mark
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Credible and actionable evidence : the foundations for rigorous and influential evaluations. ISBN 9781483325071. Published by SAGE in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
