Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies

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Routledge, Sep 3, 2018 - Psychology - 352 pages

This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations. Different models and approaches are paired with practical techniques, such as how to plan an interview to collect qualitative data and how to use statistical analyses to report results. In every chapter, case studies provide real world examples of evaluations broken down into the main elements of program evaluation: the needs that led to the program, the implementation of program plans, the people connected to the program, unexpected side effects, the role of evaluators in improving programs, the results, and the factors behind the results. In addition, the story of one of the evaluators involved in each case study is presented to show the human side of evaluation. This new edition also offers enhanced and expanded case studies, making them a central organizing theme, and adds more international examples.

New online resources for this edition include a table of evaluation models, examples of program evaluation reports, sample handouts for presentations to stakeholders, links to YouTube videos and additional annotated resources. All resources are available for download under the tab eResources at www.routledge.com/9781138103962.

 

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Contents

Analyses of Costs and Outcomes
Preface
An Overview
Planning an Evaluation
Planning an Evaluation
Developing and Using a Theory of the Program
Developing Measures of Implementation and Outcomes
Study Questions
Monitoring the Implementation and the Operation of Programs
Qualitative Evaluation Methods
Outcome Evaluations with One Group
QuasiExperimental Approaches to Outcome Evaluation
Using Experiments to Evaluate Programs
Findings
How to Encourage Utilization
References

Ethics in Program Evaluation
The Assessment of Need
Author Index
Subject Index

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Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
Kenneth J. Linfield,Emil J. Posavac
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Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
Kenneth J. Linfield,Emil J. Posavac
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About the author (2018)

Kenneth J. Linfield is Professor and Director of Graduate Training in the School of Professional Psychology at Spalding University in Louisville, KY, USA where he teaches the Program Evaluation course in the doctoral Clinical Psychology program.

Emil J. Posavac is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago, USA where he served as director of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program and chairman of the Psychology Department.

Bibliographic information

TitleProgram Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
AuthorsKenneth J. Linfield, Emil J. Posavac
Edition9, illustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2018
ISBN1351592017, 9781351592017
Length352 pages
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Psychology / Industrial & Organizational Psychology
  
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