Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of practical program evaluation / Joseph S. Wholey, Harry P. Hatry, Kathryn E. Newcomer, editors.

Publication

• San Francisco, Calf. : Jossey-Bass
• ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Wholey, Joseph S.
• Hatry, Harry P.
• Newcomer, Kathryn E., 1949-

Description

xxiii, 622 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

The second edition of "Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation" offers managers, analysts, consultants, and educators in government, nonprofit, and private institutions a valuable resource that outlines efficient and economical methods for assessing program results and identifying ways to improve program performance. "The Handbook" has been thoroughly revised. Many new chapters have been prepared for this edition, including chapters on logic modeling and on evaluation applications for small nonprofit organizations. "The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation" is a comprehensive resource on evaluation, covering both in-depth program evaluations and performance monitoring. It presents evaluation methods that will be useful at all levels of government and in nonprofit organizations.

Series Statement

A Joint publication in the Jossey-Bass public administration series, the Jossey-Bass nonprofit sector series, and the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series

Uniform Title

• Jossey-Bass public administration series.
• Jossey-Bass nonprofit sector series.
• Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series.

Subject

• Policy sciences
• Political planning > Evaluation
• Program Evaluation > methods
• Evaluation Studies as Topic > methods
• Policy Making
• Evaluationsforschung
• Beleidsevaluatie
• Methodologie
• Overheidsbeleid
• Policies
• Science
• Politics
• Planning
• EVALUATION (DEVELOPMENT)
• Handbooks
• Evaluation research (Social action programs)
• Science politique
• Politique publique > Évaluation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Meeting the need for practical evaluation approaches : an introduction / Kathryn E. Newcomer, Harry P. Hatry, and Joseph S. Wholey -- Assessing the feasibility and likely usefulness of evaluation / Joseph S. Wholey -- Designing and using process evaluation / Mary Ann Scheirer -- Using qualitative approaches / Sharon L. Caudle -- Outcome monitoring / Dennis P. Affholter -- Constructing natural "experiments" / Debra J. Rog -- Convincing quasi-experiments : the interrupted time series and regression-discontinuity designs / Richard J. Marcantonio and Thomas D. Cook -- Ethical and practical randomized field experiments / Michael L. Dennis -- Synthesizing evaluation findings / David S. Cordray and Robert L. Fischer -- Use of ratings by trained observers / John M. Greiner -- Designing and conducting surveys / Thomas I. Miller -- Systematic use of expert judgment / Harvey A. Averch -- Acting for the sake of research : the use of role-playing in evaluation / Margery Austin Turner and Wendy Zimmermann -- How to use focus groups / Debra L. Dean -- Managing field data collection from start to finish / Demetra Smith Nightingale and Shelli Balter Rossman -- Collecting data from agency records / Harry P. Hatry -- Using statistics appropriately / Kathryn E. Newcomer -- Using regression models to estimate program effects / Charles S. Reichardt and Carol A. Bormann -- Benefit-cost analysis in program evaluation / James Edwin Kee -- Making evaluation units effective / Eleanor Chelimsky -- Managing evaluation projects step by step / James B. Bell -- Evaluators as change agents / Richard C. Sonnichsen -- Making a splash : reporting evaluation results effectively / Michael Hendricks -- Maximizing the use of evaluation results / Reginald Carter -- Conclusion, Improving evaluation activities and results / Harry P. Hatry, Kathryn E. Newcomer, and Joseph S. Wholey.

ISBN

• 1555426573
• 9781555426576

LCCN

• 93048623
• 9781555426576

OCLC

• ocm29548503
• 29548503
• SCSB-2028656

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library