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This book reports the use of empowerment evaluation with a national school breakfast program in Australia known as the Good Start Breakfast Club. The empowerment evaluation (Fetterman, 2001) approach was used as the framework to develop a practical methodology desired by the program managers and major sponsor to evaluate their program. Program personnel engaged in a process of self-evaluation and, in so doing, a suite of practical evaluation tools was developed. During the application of empowerment evaluation the author served as facilitator and evaluation coach , offering evaluation expertise throughout the process.

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Dr Wayne Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Avondale College, Lake Macquarie where for 25 years he has worked as a teacher educator in health and physical education. He lives with his wife on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia where the coastal waters provide abundant opportunity to paddle sea kayaks.

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