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Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06-08
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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.

Evaluating Social Programs and Problems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Evaluating Social Programs and Problems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-01-30
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book presents visions of how to solve social problems in the 21st century and how programs SHOULD be evaluated, not how they will be evaluated.

Evaluation--promise and Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Evaluation--promise and Performance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Evaluation: Promise and Performance shows how evaluators can help government managers and policy-makers to clarify the intent of government programs and to improve program efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness. The book presents a strategy through which evaluators can determine what information is likely to be used and purchase sequential increments of timely, useful information on program promise and performance.

Evaluation and Effective Public Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Evaluation and Effective Public Management

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Performance Measurement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Performance Measurement

Long before reinventing government came into vogue, the Urban Institute pioneered methods for government and human services agencies to measure the performance of their programs. This comprehensive guidebook synthesizes more than two decades of Harry Hatry's groundbreaking work. It covers every component of the performance measurement process, from identifying the program’s mission, objectives, customers, and trackable outcomes to finding the best indicators for each outcome, the sources of data, and how to collect them. Hatry explains how to select indicator breakouts and benchmarks for comparison to actual values, and describes numerous uses for performance information. Since the publica...

Foundations of Program Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Foundations of Program Evaluation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Foundations of Program Evaluationheralds a thorough exploration of the field of program evaluation--looking back on its origins. By summarizing, comparing, and contrasting the work of seven major theorists of program evaluation, this book provides an important perspective on the current state of evaluation theory and provides suggestions for ways of improving its practice. Beginning in Chapter Two, the authors develop a conceptual framework to analyze how successfully each theory meets the specific criteria of its framework. Each subsequent chapter is devoted to the presentation of the theoretical and practical advice of a significant theorist--Michael Scriven, Donald Campbell, Carol Weiss, Joseph Wholey, Robert Stake, Lee Cronbach, and Peter Rossi.

Evaluation for the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

Evaluation for the 21st Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-01-28
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators' chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.

Improving Government Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Improving Government Performance

An evaluation framework for more effective government Improving Government Performance takes as project management approach to government program evaluation, offering clear strategies with real-world practicability. Expert discussion details crucial guidance on planning, implementation and analysis, providing a robust framework for quick, efficient, cost-effective evaluations. Systematic evaluation of reveals weaknesses before they break, allowing timely revision and readjustment that can improve productivity, streamline operations, and promote high-quality management; this book provides essential guidance for through, effective review and analysis of any government program or agency.

Are You Happy?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Are You Happy?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Collected from conversations with more than 50 writers, scientists, celebrities, educators, and religious leaders in which Dennis Wholey sought to find the common denominators in happy people.

Ten Steps to a Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Ten Steps to a Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation System

An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. Governments, parliaments, citizens, the private sector, NGOs, civil society, international organizations and donors are among the stakeholders interested in better performance. As demands for greater accountability and real results have increased, there is an attendant need for enhanced results-based...