Research design and greater attention to social context have figured prominently in efforts to improve evaluation utility. This essay continues a second, related line of inquiry: ways to analyze data to increase the precision with which program effects-or lack of them-can be understood. The heuristics suggested treat the issues of magnitude of effects, attribution of causality, and statistical reliability. These are illustrated through examining interpretations of data from an evaluation of the Career Intern Program, a project serving high risk, low-income youth. en uring the coming months, federal legislation on four educa-D tion-related issues will be debated: welfare reform, youth un-employment, elementary and secondary education, and fa...
This paper analyzes the method of social experiments. The assumptions that justify the experimental ...
In Canada and the United States, young people from low-income families are less likely than other yo...
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAI...
This dissertation consists of three essays on the evaluation of social programs. All three essays co...
The dissertation was undertaken in response to a three-part problem, which was seen as limiting the ...
This dissertation consists of three essays on the evaluation of social programs. All three essays co...
The aim of this paper is to review certain policy implications of evaluative research. Our special i...
Recent growth and co-optation of social reform programs into the structure of the State, and paralle...
Using ‘evidence’ to falsify rather than verify patterns in data and searching for alternative explan...
This paper discusses methods for evaluating the impacts of social programs prior to their implementa...
This book draws upon the JTPA Evaluation Design Project initiated, developed and directed by the Was...
Reviews of research on the evaluation of career assistance from 1970 to 2014 (N 23) are examined fo...
This paper presents a review of non-experimental methods for the evaluation of social programmes. We...
Let's start with a basic premise about evaluation--we benefit by knowing how our programs work and w...
Research methods are tools that can be variously applied- depending on the stage of knowledge in a p...
This paper analyzes the method of social experiments. The assumptions that justify the experimental ...
In Canada and the United States, young people from low-income families are less likely than other yo...
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAI...
This dissertation consists of three essays on the evaluation of social programs. All three essays co...
The dissertation was undertaken in response to a three-part problem, which was seen as limiting the ...
This dissertation consists of three essays on the evaluation of social programs. All three essays co...
The aim of this paper is to review certain policy implications of evaluative research. Our special i...
Recent growth and co-optation of social reform programs into the structure of the State, and paralle...
Using ‘evidence’ to falsify rather than verify patterns in data and searching for alternative explan...
This paper discusses methods for evaluating the impacts of social programs prior to their implementa...
This book draws upon the JTPA Evaluation Design Project initiated, developed and directed by the Was...
Reviews of research on the evaluation of career assistance from 1970 to 2014 (N 23) are examined fo...
This paper presents a review of non-experimental methods for the evaluation of social programmes. We...
Let's start with a basic premise about evaluation--we benefit by knowing how our programs work and w...
Research methods are tools that can be variously applied- depending on the stage of knowledge in a p...
This paper analyzes the method of social experiments. The assumptions that justify the experimental ...
In Canada and the United States, young people from low-income families are less likely than other yo...
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAI...