The Evaluation of Social Policies [Paperback]

Policy Evaluation and Evaluation Policy.- Evaluation as a Discipline.- Purposes of This Study.- Treatment of Methods.- Plan.- Level of Difficulty of Presentation.- I Valuation.- 1 Issues in Evaluation Policy.- 2 Evaluation and Social Research.- 3 Evaluation and Social Justice.- 4 A Framework for Valuation.- II Valuation and Observation.- 5 Technique of Value Scaling.- 6 Relationships That Determine Outcomes of Tests of Hypotheses.- 7 Squaring Research Design with Policy Requirements.- III Observation and Inference.- 8 Plausible and Implausible Hypotheses.- 9 Fluctuating Parameters.- 10 A Classification of Evaluative Inference Methods.- IV Two Case Studies in Evaluation.- 11 Technical Skew in Social Work Evaluations.- 12 A Reanalysis of Love Canal Data on Spontaneous Abortions.- References.- Name Index.