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Readings in evaluation research
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Francis G. Caro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1977]
- ©1977
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781610441094, 1610441095, 9780871542014, 9780871542014
- OCLC
- ocn922072042
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword ; Preface ; Evaluation Research: An Overview ; Part I: Basic Issues: Program Development and Scientific Inquiry ; 1. Prospects and Possibilites: The New Deal and the New Social Research // A. Stephen Stephan; 2. Evaluating Educational Programs // Edward A. Suchman; 3. Program Evaluation Models and the Implementation of Research Findings // Herbert C. Schulberg and Frank Baker; Part II. The Organizational Context: Establishing and Maintaining the Evaluation Research Role ; 4. Some Thoughts on Giving People Economic Advice // Anthony Downs
- 5. Organizational Strains in the Research-Practitioner Relationship // Hyman Rodman and Ralph Kolodny6. The Politics of Evaluation in Higher Education // Ernest R. House; 7. Program Management and the Federal Evaluator // Pamela Horst, Joe N. Nay, John W. Scanlon, and Joseph S. Wholey; 8. Between the Cup and the Lip // Carol H. Weiss; 9. The Need for Research on the Communication of Research Results // Floyd Mann and Rensis Likert; Part III: Methodological Issues: Measurement and Design ; 10. Evaluation of Social Programs // B. G. Greenberg
- 11. Evaluative Studies of Institutions for Delinquents: Implications for Research and Social Policy // Paul Lerman12. Reforms as Experiments // Donald T. Campbell; 13. Research in Large-Scale Intervention Programs // Howard E. Freeman and Clarence C. Sherwood; 14. Toward Avoiding the Goal-Trap in Evaluation Research // Irwin Deutscher; 15. Boobytraps and Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Social Action Programs // Peter H. Rossi; Part IV: Case Materials ; 16. The Evaluation of Broad-Aim Programs: A Cautionary Case and a Moral // Robert S. Weiss and Martin Rein
- 17. The Evolution of an Evaluation: Methodological Problems in Programs for School-Age Mothers // Lorraine V. Klerman, James F. Jekel, John B. Currie, Ira W. Gabrielson, and Philip M. Sarrel18. Experimental Methodology and Innovative Social Programming // Francis G. Caro; 19. The External Politics of the National Income Transfer Experiment // Peter H. Rossi and Katharine C. Lyall; 20. Responding to Skid Row Alcoholism: Self-Defeating Arrangements in an Innovative Treatment Program // Lincoln J. Fry and Jon Miller; 21. An Experiment on the Social Effects of Good Housing // F. Stuart Chapin
- 22. The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: A Summary // George L. Kelling, Tony Pate, Duane Dieckman, and Charles E. Brown23. The Impact of Head Start: Executive Summary // Victor Cicarelli; 24. Head Start: Comments on the Criticisms // John W. Evans; 25. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the OEO Legal Services Program // Anthony Champagne; 26. Champagne's Assessment of Legal Services Programs: An Evaluation of an Evaluation // Richard A. Berk; 27. A Reply to Berk // Anthony Champagne