Outcome-Based Evaluation [Paperback]

Outcome-based evaluation continues to play a central role in the larger field of policy analysis and speaks to the needs and interests of administrators, students, policymakers, funders, consumers, and educators. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1995, the author broadens the coverage from his previous emphasis on developmental disabilities to include other areas of human and social service delivery such as education, health, mental health, aging, substance abuse, and corrections.Outcome-based evaluation continues to play a central role in the larger field of policy analysis and speaks to the needs and interests of administrators, students, policymakers, funders, consumers, and educators. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1995, the author broadens the coverage from his previous emphasis on developmental disabilities to include other areas of human and social service delivery such as education, health, mental health, aging, substance abuse, and corrections.I: An Overview of Outcome-Based Evaluation. 1. An Overview of Outcome-Based Evaluation and Its Application. 2. Program Evaluation. 3. Effectiveness Evaluation. 4. Impact Evaluation. 5. Policy Evaluation.II: Outcomes: Their Selection, Measurement, and Analysis. 6. Selecting Outcomes. 7. Measuring Outcomes. 8. Analyzing and Interpreting Outcomes. 9. Future Scenarios.References.Author Index. Subject Index.From reviews of the First Edition:
... [E]minently readable...[with] a wonderfully up-to-date library of references... [The book] offers an evaluation orientation in which values for the well-being of people are foundations. In so doing, it demonstrates that effective evaluation clearly is not just a set of technical methods and tools but, at its heart, it is anchored ultimately in the values...of stakeholders. This is no small contributionl6