Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation

Meeting the Need for Practical Evaluation Approaches: An Introduction. EVALUATION DESIGN: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES. Assessing the Feasibility and Usefulness of Evaluation (J. Wholey). Designing and Using Process Evaluation (M. Scheirer). Using Qualitative Approaches (S. Caudle). Outcome Monitoring (D. Affholter). Constructing Natural (D. Rog). Convincing Quasi-Experiments: The Interrupted Time Series and Regression-Discontinuity Designs (R. Marcantonio & T. Cook). Ethical and Practical Randomized Field Experiments (M. Dennis). Synthesizing Evaluation Findings (D. Cordray & R. Fischer). PRACTICAL DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES. Use of Ratings by Trained Observers (J. Greiner). Designing and…