Title: Improving evaluations /
Authors: Datta, Lois-ellin, 1932-; Perloff, Robert O., 1921-
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs) Congresses.
Contents: Introduction: Enhanced lives, improved evaluations / Lois-ellin Datta and Robert Perloff -- Section 1: Obstacles to evaluation -- Past, present, and future prospects of evaluation research / Peter H. Rossi -- What limits the impact of evaluations on federal policy? / Gregory Wurzburg -- Government constraints on evaluation quality / Clark C. Abt -- Obstacles to evaluating state human service programs / Michael Simmons -- Section 2: Improving evaluation designs -- Expanding our view of control groups in evaluations / Leonard Saxe and Michelle Fine -- Nonexperimental evaluation research: contributions of causal modeling / Peter M. Bentler and J. Arthur Woodward -- Some approaches to assessing change / Barry S. Tuchfeld -- Applying time series strategies: an underutilized solution / Michael S. Knapp -- Section 3: Improving measurement -- Searching for the JND in mental health / Charles Windle -- Measuring impact: power theory in social program evaluation / Robert F. Boruch and Hernando Gomez -- Against them or for me: community impact evaluations / Harris M. Allen, Jr. and David O. Sears -- Cost-effective Medicaid mental health policies: design and testing / Barbara C. Davenport and Ronald L. Nuttall -- Counting actions louder than words: behavioral scales of job performance / Hermann F. Schwind -- New health technologies: assessing the costs and benefits / Selma J. Mushkin -- Section 4: The role of evaluation -- Assumptional analysis: a methodology for strategic problem solving / Ian I. Mitroff, James R. Emshoff, and Ralph H. Kilmann -- Tinkering with open systems: organizational theory perspectives on educational program evaluation / Michael S. Knapp -- Emerging issues for evaluators and evaluation users / Robert F. Rich -- Evaluation and change / Howard Davis and Susan Salasin.