作者 Rossi, Peter H.;Lipsey, Mark W.;Freeman, Howard E.
出版社 SAGE
出版时间 2003-10
ISBN 9780761908944
装帧 精装
开本 其他
页数 480页
【内容简介】
Relied on by over 90,000 readers as the text on how to design, implement, and appraise the utility of social programs through the use of evaluation methods, Evaluation, 7th Edition has been completely revised to include the latest techniques and approache
【目录】
Contents AN OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM EVALUATION1 What Is Program Evaluation? 3 A Brief History of Evaluation 8 The Defining Characteristics of Program Evaluation 16 Evaluation Research in Practice 21 Who Can Do Evaluations? 26 Summary 28 TAILORING EVALUATIONS 31 Program Outcomes 204 Identifying Relevant Outcomes 208 Measuring Program Outcomes 213 Monitoring Program Outcomes 222 Summary 231 ASSESSING PROGRAM IMPACT RANDOMIZED FIELD EXPERIMENTS 233 When Is an Impact Assessment Appropriate? 235 Key Concepts in Impact Assessment 236 What Aspects of the Evaluation Plan Must Be Tailored? 33 What Features of the Situation Should the Evaluation Plan Take Into Account? 34 The Nature of the EvaluatorStakeholder Relationship 48 Evaluation Questions and Evaluation Methods 52 Summary 61 IDENTIFYING ISSUES AND FORMULATING QUESTIONS 67 What Makes a Good Evaluation Question? 69 Determining the Specific Questions the Evaluation Should Answer 81 Collating Evaluation Questions and Setting Priorities96 Summary 97 ASSESSING THE NEED FOR A PROGRAM 101 The Role of Evaluators in Diagnosing Social Conditions and Service Needs 103 Defining the Problem to Be Addressed 105 When Where and How Big? 108 Defining and Identifying the Targets of Interventions 118 Describing Target Populations 121 Describing the Nature of Service Needs 124 Summary 130 EXPRESSING AND ASSESSING PROGRAM THEORY 133 The Evaluability Assessment Perspective 136 Describing Program Theory 139 Eliciting Program Theory 146 Assessing Program Theory 152 Possible Outcomes of Program Theory Assessment 165 Summary 166 ASSESSING AND MONITORING PROGRAM PROCESS 169 What Is Program Process Evaluation and Monitoring? 171 Perspectives on Program Process Monitoring 179 Monitoring Service Utilization 183 Monitoring Organizational Functions 191 Analysis of Program Process Monitoring Data 198 Summary 199 MEASURING AND MONITORING PROGRAM OUTCOMES 203 Randomized Field Experiments 239 Limitations on the Use of Randomized Experiments 252 Summary 262 ASSESSING PROGRAM IMPACT ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS 265 Bias in Estimation of Program Effects 267 QuasiExperimental Impact Assessment 274 Some Cautions About Using QuasiExperiments for Impact Assessment 295 Summary 297 DETECTING INTERPRETING AND ANALYZING PROGRAM EFFECTS 301 The Magnitude of a Program Effect 302 Detecting Program Effects 306 Assessing the Practical Significance of Program Effects 314 Examining Variations in Program Effects 317 The Role of MetaAnalysis 324 Summary 328 MEASURING EFFICIENCY 331 Key Concepts in Efficiency Analysis 334 Conducting CostBenefit Analyses 343 Conducting CostEffectiveness Analyses 362 Summary 366 THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EVALUATION 369 The Social Ecology of Evaluations 373 The Profession of Evaluation 393 Evaluation Standards Guidelines and Ethics 404 Utilization of Evaluation Results 411 The Future of Evaluation 418 Summary 519
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