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academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. Comprehensive
yet accessible, this book provides a practical introduction to the
skills, attitudes, and methods required to assess the worth and
value of human services offered in public and private organizations
in a wide range of fields. Readers are introduced to the need for
such activities, the methods for carrying out evaluations, and the
essential steps in organizing findings into reports. The book
focuses on smaller projects carried out by an internal evaluator
(i.e., on the work of people who are "closely associated" with the
service to be evaluated), and is designed to help program planners,
developers, and evaluators to work with program staff members who
might be "threatened" by program evaluation. Features case studies
and short profiles of individual program evaluators engaged in
conducting evaluations in private service agencies, foundations,
universities, and federal, state, and local governments. Program
Evaluation: An Overview. Planning an Evaluation. Selecting Criteria
and Setting Standards. Developing Measures. Ethics in Program
Evaluation. The Assessment of Need. Monitoring the Operation of
Programs. Single Group, Nonexperimental Outcome Evaluations.
Quasi-Experimental Approaches to Outcome Evaluation. Using
Experiments to Evaluate Programs. Analysis of Costs and Outcomes.
Qualitative Evaluation Methods. Evaluation Reports: Interpreting
and Communicating Findings. How to Encourage Utilization. For
Program Evaluators, Program Planners, Program Administrators,
Public Administrators in all types of human services--Criminal
Justice, Corrections, Public Health, Public Administration,
Community Nursing, Educational Administration, Substance Abuse
Program Administration, Social Work, etc.
General
Imprint: |
Prentice Hall
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2008 |
First published: |
December 2008 |
Authors: |
Emil J. Posavac
• Raymond G. Carey
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Book - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
ISBN-13: |
978-0-205-67853-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
|
LSN: |
0-205-67853-X |
Barcode: |
9780205678532 |
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