Practical Program Evaluation - Examples from Child Abuse Prevention

Focusing on community-based child abuse prevention programmes, this manual facilitates programme self-evaluation research so that it can be conducted with a minimum of outside technical assistance.
The volume explores models of evaluation, discusses common technical elements of programme evaluation research and presents simple information and instructions on how to perform some specialized research procedures. Topics related to choosing samples, selecting research designs, constructing data collection instruments, scheduling data collection, training data collectors and analyzing findings are covered. An annotated guide to practical, hands-on materials for self-evaluation is also provided. Throughout, case illustrations are

List of contents

Introduction
PART ONE: MODELS OF PROGRAM EVALUATION
Input Evaluation
Case Studies and Practice Guides
Input Evaluation
Process Evaluation
Case Studies and Practice Guides
Process Evaluation
Group Level Outcome Evaluation
Client Level Outcome Evaluation
Case Studies and Practice Guides
Group and Client Level Outcome Evaluations
PART TWO: COMMON TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF PROGRAM EVALUATION RESEARCH
Planning an Evaluation Study
Obtaining Data Collection Instruments
Collecting the Data
Analyzing the Data
Reporting Evaluation Findings

Summary

Focusing on community-based child abuse prevention programmes, this manual facilitates programme self-evaluation research so that it can be conducted with a minimum of outside technical assistance. It explores models of evaluation and discusses common technical elements of programme evaluation research.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Ford, Neil Gilbert, Jeanne Pietrzak, Malia Ramler, Tanya Renner
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1989
• EAN: 9780803934962
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-3496-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Series: Sage Sourcebooks for the Human Services; Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)