Publications

To date, Dr. Gail Barrington has written over 300 reports for her clients on a wide variety of evaluation topics. One outstanding example was her Integrated Services Review for the Yellowhead School Division No. 12 which won the 1992 Annual Evaluation Report Awards Competition, Division H, at the American Educational Research Association. She has also written a number of articles on evaluation topics and has authored several chapters in books on evaluation.


No Rain Today: Commentary. In Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice: Cases and Commentaries. Edited by Michael Morris. New York: Guilford. 2007.


Co-editor with Dawn Hanson Smart. Independent Evaluation Consulting. New Directions for Evaluation. Number 111, Fall 2006.

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The Evaluation Consultants Life Cycle: Theory, Practice, and Implications for Learning. Independent Evaluation Consulting. New Directions for Evaluation. Number 111, Fall 2006. pp. 29-40.


Encyclopedia of Evaluation. S. Matheson, ed. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, California (2005). Entries on Consultants, External Evaluation, & Independent Evaluation.


The Lay of the Land: Evaluation Practice in Canada Today. Gauthier, Benoit et al., The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 143-178. 2004.


Exit: When Client and Consultant Part. The Consultants Report, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 2004, pages 1 & 4.


When Management Changes: Advice for a Young Evaluator. Ethical Challenges, Commentary. American Journal of Evaluation, 20(2), 1999.


Empowerment Goes Large Scale: The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Experience. The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Special Issue. 1999, pp. 179-192.


Book Review, Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments: A Practical Guide by Belle Ruth Witkin & James W. Altschuld. The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Vol 13, No. 1. 1998.


Evaluation Skills Nobody Taught Me. Independent Consulting for Evaluators eds. Alan Vaux, Margaret S. Stockdale, Michael J. Schwerin. Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, California, 1992, pp. 6984.


Designing and Evaluating Training Strategies: Emerging Models. Evaluation Forum, Issue #7, June 1990, pp. 7073.

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