Description
Book SynopsisThis timely, unique, and insightful book provides students and practitioners with the tools and skills needed to evaluate social and policy programs across a range of disciplinesâfrom public health to social work to educationâenabling the allocation of scarce human and financial resources to advance the health and well-being of individuals and populations.
The chapters are organized according to the main tasks involved in conducting an evaluation to produce unbiased evidence of program effectiveness, quality, and value. The chapters include methods for selecting and justifying evaluation questions or hypotheses, designing evaluations, sampling participants, selecting information sources, and ensuring reliable and valid measurement. The final section of the book is focused around managing and analyzing data and transparently reporting the results in written and oral form. The book features international case studies throughout, covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method
Table of Contents
1. Introducing Program Evaluation
2. Evaluation Questions and Evidence of Effectiveness, Quality, and Value
3. Designing Program Evaluations
4. Sampling in Program Evaluations
5: Collecting Program Evaluation Information
6. Evaluation Measures
7. Managing Evaluation Data and Managing the Evaluation
8. Analyzing Evaluation Data
9. Evaluation Reports- tables numbers don’t make sense (order and repeats)
