Title: Evaluation research and practice :
Authors: American-German Workshop on Evaluation Research; Levine, Robert A.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Physical description: 255 p. : graphs ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Part I: The spread of evaluation research -- 1. The next decade in evauation research / Howard E. Freeman and Marian A. Solomon -- 2. Program evaluation and policy analysis in western nations: an overview / Robert A. Levine -- 3. The limits and potential of 'program evaluation' / Georges Ferné -- Part II: Evaluation in the administrative machinery -- 4. The contribution of evaluation to administration / Gerd-Michael Hellstern and Hellmut Wollmann -- 5. Using evalution to improve program performance / Joseph S. Wholey -- 6. The transfer of public policy research from the United States to the Federal Republic of Germany / Stephen J. Fitzsimmons -- Part III: Improving evaluation research strategies -- 7. Comprehensive program evaluation / Martin Rein -- 8. Evaluation as meaningful social research / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann and Klaus-Peter Strohmeier -- 9. Casual analysis in nonexperimental evaluation research / Manfred Kuchler -- Part IV: Translating research into policy -- 10. Can evaluation be used for policy action? / Robert F. Rich -- 11. The utilization of social science knowledge in the Federal Republic of Germany / Bernhard Badura -- 12. Management and evaluation in a knowledge transfer context / Thomas J. Kiresuk, Nancy E. Larsen, and Sander H. Lund -- Part V: Future needs and prospects -- 13. The professionalization of evaluation research in the United States / Peter H. Rossi -- 14. Evaluation-training: A social interactive process / Winfried Nacken
Notes: Papers drawn from the American-German Workshop on Evaluation Research held at the Free University of Berlin, June 1979.
Subject headings (LCSH): Evaluation research (Social action programs); Evaluation--Congresses.