Evaluation and experiment : some critical issues in assessing social programs /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Battelle Seattle Research Center
Otros Autores: Bennett, Carl A. (Carl Allen), 1921-, Lumsdaine, Arthur A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Academic Press, �1975.
Colección:Quantitive Studies in Social Relations.
Temas:
Evaluation research (Social action programs) > United States > Congresses.
�Evaluation des programmes d'action sociale > Recherche > �Etats-Unis > Congr�es.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evaluatie.
United States
Evaluation Research
Social Service - Research
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congr�es.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Evaluation and Experiment; Chapter 1. Social Program Evaluation: Definitions and Issues; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS OF EVALUATION; III. METHODOLOGY IN IMPACT ASSESSMENT; IV. ASSESSMENT AND VALUE JUDGMENTS; V. SOME ORGANIZATIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES; VI. CRITICAL ISSUES; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Assessing Social Innovations: An Empirical Base for Policy; I. THE GENERAL IDEA; II. INTRODUCTION
  • III. THREE INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLESIV. RATINGS OF INNOVATIONS; V. FINDINGS FROM NONRANDOMIZED STUDIES; VI. ISSUES RELATED TO RANDOMIZATION; VII. ISSUES OF FEASIBILITY IN INSTALLING PROGRAM EVALUATIONS; VIII. COSTS, TIMELINESS, AND RANDOMIZED FIELD STUDIES; IX. ISSUES THAT ARISE IN IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIONS; X. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Making the Case for Randomized Assignment to Treatments by Considering the Alternatives: Six Ways in Which Quasi-Experimental Evaluations In Compensatory Education Tend to Underestimate Effects; I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. COMMON SENSE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWINGIII. EXPERIMENTATION IN EDUCATION; IV. SIX SOURCES OF UNDERADJUSTMENT BIAS; V. SUMMARY COMMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; Chapter 4. Regression and Selection Models to Improve Nonexperimental Comparisons; I. INTRODUCTION; II. AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO BIAS IN TREATMENT EFFECTS; III. ESTIMATION OF MODELS UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNKNOWN BIAS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Field Trial Designs in Gauging the Impact of Fertility Planning Programs; I. INTRODUCTION; II. FIELD STUDIES OF FERTILITY PROGRAM IMPACTS
  • III. IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF STUDY DESIGN EXEMPLIFIEDIV. SPECIAL FEATURES OBSERVED IN FIELD EXPERIMENTS; V. MEASURES OF IMPACT USED IN FIELD STUDIES; VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Experiments and Evaluations: A Reexamination; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DECISION ANALYSIS AS A PARADIGM FOR EVALUATION RESEARCH; III. SOME COMMENTS AND COMPLAINTS, MOSTLY ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; IV. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Feedback in Social Systems: Operational and Systemic Research on Production, Maintenance, Control, and Adaptive Functions; I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. TYPES OF FEEDBACKIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK; IV. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SYSTEM FUNCTIONING THROUGH FEEDBACK; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Assessing Alternative Conceptions of Evaluation; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DETERMINATION OF IMPACT; III. EVALUATION AND EXPERIMENT; IV. DECISION VS. UNDERSTANDING; V. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION; VI. SOME SUGGESTED CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; VII. SOURCES OF IDEAS

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