Evaluation Model 1 Running head: A PROGRAM EVALUATION MODEL Peace Works: A Program Evaluation Model A Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association

and the resulting pressure on schools to implement violence prevention programs is enormous. However, of the more than 80 violence prevention programs on the market, few of them have undergone evaluation studies (Knowles, 2001). This paper describes in detail the model employed to evaluate one such prevention program, “Peace Works, ” implemented in the two