000433889 000__ 02772cam\a2200301\i\4500 000433889 001__ 433889 000433889 005__ 20210513151746.0 000433889 008__ 800117s1979\\\\cau\\\\\\b\\\\100\0\eng\\ 000433889 010__ $$a 79013627 000433889 020__ $$a0803912404 000433889 020__ $$a9780803912403 000433889 020__ $$a0803912412 (pbk.) 000433889 020__ $$a9780803912410 (pbk.) 000433889 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm05659315 000433889 035__ $$a433889 000433889 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dOCL$$dMUQ$$dYBM$$dAGL$$dBAKER$$dNLGGC$$dBTCTA$$dOCLCG$$dAU@$$dNLE$$dDEBBG$$dISE 000433889 049__ $$aISEA 000433889 05000 $$aH62$$b.I54 000433889 08200 $$a361.6/1/072$$219 000433889 24500 $$aImproving evaluations /$$cedited by Lois-ellin Datta and Robert Perloff. 000433889 260__ $$aBeverly Hills, Calif. :$$bSage Publications,$$cc1979. 000433889 300__ $$a280 p. ;$$c23 cm. 000433889 440_0 $$aSage focus editions ;$$v12. 000433889 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographies. 000433889 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Enhanced lives, improved evaluations / Lois-ellin Datta and Robert Perloff -- Section 1: Obstacles to evaluation -- Past, present, and future prospects of evaluation research / Peter H. Rossi -- What limits the impact of evaluations on federal policy? / Gregory Wurzburg -- Government constraints on evaluation quality / Clark C. Abt -- Obstacles to evaluating state human service programs / Michael Simmons -- Section 2: Improving evaluation designs -- Expanding our view of control groups in evaluations / Leonard Saxe and Michelle Fine -- Nonexperimental evaluation research: contributions of causal modeling / Peter M. Bentler and J. Arthur Woodward -- Some approaches to assessing change / Barry S. Tuchfeld -- Applying time series strategies: an underutilized solution / Michael S. Knapp -- Section 3: Improving measurement -- Searching for the JND in mental health / Charles Windle -- Measuring impact: power theory in social program evaluation / Robert F. Boruch and Hernando Gomez -- Against them or for me: community impact evaluations / Harris M. Allen, Jr. and David O. Sears -- Cost-effective Medicaid mental health policies: design and testing / Barbara C. Davenport and Ronald L. Nuttall -- Counting actions louder than words: behavioral scales of job performance / Hermann F. Schwind -- New health technologies: assessing the costs and benefits / Selma J. Mushkin -- Section 4: The role of evaluation -- Assumptional analysis: a methodology for strategic problem solving / Ian I. Mitroff, James R. Emshoff, and Ralph H. Kilmann -- Tinkering with open systems: organizational theory perspectives on educational program evaluation / Michael S. Knapp -- Emerging issues for evaluators and evaluation users / Robert F. Rich -- Evaluation and change / Howard Davis and Susan Salasin. 000433889 650_0 $$aEvaluation research (Social action programs)$$vCongresses. 000433889 7001_ $$aDatta, Lois-ellin,$$d1932- 000433889 7001_ $$aPerloff, Robert O.,$$d1921- 000433889 85200 $$bgen$$hH62$$i.I54 000433889 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:433889$$pGLOBAL_SET 000433889 980__ $$aBIB 000433889 980__ $$aBOOK