Evaluating social programs
Subtitle: theory, practice, and politics.
By: Edited by Peter H. Rossi [and] Walter Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Walter, joint comp.
Series: Quantitative studies in social relations
Publisher: Seminar Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Williams, W. The organization of the volume and some key definitions.; title: Rossi, P. H. Testing for success and failure in social action.; title: Houston, T. R. The behavioral sciences impact-effectiveness model.; title: Stanley, J. C. Controlled field experiments as a model for evaluation.; title: Cain, G. G. and Watts, H. W. Problems in making policy inferences from the Coleman report.; title: Coleman, J. S. Reply to Cain and Watts.; title: Cain, G. G. and Hollister, R. G. The methodology of evaluating social action programs.; title: McDill, E. L. [and others]. Evaluation in practice; compensatory education.; title: Glennan, T. K. Evaluating Federal manpower programs; notes and observations.; title: Kershaw, D. N. Issues in income maintenance experimentation.; title: Williams, W. and Evans, J. W. The politics of evaluation: the case of Head Start.; title: Rossi, P. H. Observations of the organization of social research.; title: Williams, W. The capacity of social science organizations to perform large-scale evaluative research.