Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation

Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation is a thorough, accessible guide to concept mapping for social or organizational researchers in any context. The volume describes the history of structured conceptualization-a most useful form of concept mapping. It also highlights the advantages that group or community concept mapping has over other kinds of group decision processes. With straightforward language and useful examples from the authors' 40 combined years of creating and working with this process, the book describes in detail the six major steps in the conduct of group concept mapping, and shares both the process of concept mapping and the equally important facilitation and guidance techniques that the authors have developed.

ISBN 1412940281   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781412940283 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 254 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Series ISSN 50 Format Paperback   Series title Applied Social Research Methods Publication date 12 Dec 2006   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2006017537   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 300.72   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 216

1		An introduction to concept mapping		1
2		Preparing for concept mapping		27
3		Generating the ideas		49
4		Structuring the statements		67
5		Concept mapping analysis		87
6		Interpreting the maps		111
7		Using concept mapping in planning		135
8		Using concept mapping in evaluation		157
9		Mapping the future		175
App		Concept mapping dissertations		181

Mary Kane and Bill Trochim are the public face of "concept mapping" for most us who do planning and evaluation in public health. This volume is an enormously helpful and comprehensive look at concept mapping not only for those unfamiliar with the concept, but for those, like me, who have experienced the approach as a consumer, but have interest in the intricacies of the "hows" and "added value" of concept mapping over other approaches. Best of all, they do an exceptional job of using concept mapping to integrate planning and evaluation, linking the hermetically sealed boxes in which these disciplines often live in large organizations. -- Thomas Chapel 20060601 "At last, an up-to-date, how-to-text on concept mapping in evaluation!...Mary Kane and William Trochim, instrumental in the development and promotion of concept mapping, have finally produced such book, which will enable experienced evaluators and program planners to add concept mapping to their suite of methods." -- Rick Cummings 20080919

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