Evaluation: A Systematic Approach

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SAGE Publications, 14 ott 2003 - 480 pagine

Since Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Howard E. Freeman first published Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, more than 90,000 readers have considered it the premier text on how to design, implement, and appraise social programs through evaluation. In this, the completely revised Seventh Edition, authors Rossi and Lipsey include the latest techniques and approaches to evaluation as well as guidelines to tailor evaluations to fit programs and social contexts.

With decades of hands-on experience conducting evaluations, the authors provide scores of examples to help students understand how evaluators deal with various critical issues. They include a glossary of key terms and concepts, making this the most comprehensive and authoritative evaluation text available.

Thoroughly revised, the Seventh Edition now includes

* Substantially more attention to outcome measurement

* Lengthy discussions of program theory, including a section about detecting program effects and interpreting their practical significance

* An augmented and updated discussion of major evaluation designs

* A detailed exposition of meta-analysis as an approach to the synthesis of evaluation studies

* Alternative approaches to evaluation

* Examples of successful evaluations

* Discussions of the political and social contexts of evaluation

 

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Sommario

Preface
Summary
Summary
IDENTIFYING ISSUES AND FORMULATING QUESTIONS
ASSESSING THE NEED FOR A PROGRAM
Summary
EXPRESSING AND ASSESSING PROGRAM THEORY
ASSESSING AND MONITORING PROGRAM PROCESS
Summary
ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS
DETECTING INTERPRETING AND ANALYZING PROGRAM
MEASURING EFFICIENCY
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EVALUATION
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX

MEASURING AND MONITORING PROGRAM OUTCOMES
RANDOMIZED FIELD
SUBJECT INDEX

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Informazioni sull'autore (2003)

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis). The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloEvaluation: A Systematic Approach
AutoriPeter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, Howard E Freeman
Edizione7, ristampa
EditoreSAGE Publications, 2003
ISBN1452258449, 9781452258447
Lunghezza480 pagine
  
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