Introduction: 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.