Evaluation: A Systematic Approach - Hardcover

Rossi, Peter H.; Lipsey, Mark W.; Freeman, Howard E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761908943 ISBN 13: 9780761908944

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Relied on by over 90,000 readers as the text on how to design, implement, and appraise the utility of social programs through the use of evaluation methods, Evaluation, 7th Edition has been completely revised to include the latest techniques and approaches to evaluation as well as guidelines for how evaluations should be tailored to fit programs and social contexts. Plus, throughout this new edition, there is more focus on evaluation diagnostic procedures.

New to this Edition:

- The four chapters on impact assessment have been completely revised to give more attention to outcome measurement

- An at-length discussion of program theory, including a section about detecting program effects and interpreting their practical significance.

- Augmented and updated discussion of major evaluation designs

- A detailed exposition of meta-analysis as an approach to the synthesis of evaluation studies

- Consideration of alternative approaches to evaluation

- Many examples of successful evaluations

- Discussion of the political and social contexts of evaluation activities.

In addition, the entire text has been edited to make it more compact and readable, and the key concepts and glossary sections have been restructured for ease of use.

About this title

Review

"What sets this book apart is the sheer comprehensiveness resulting from almost four decades of research and refinements though seven editions. It is suitable for use in teaching senior undergraduate and graduate students in a range of fields and disciplines as well as experienced evolution practitioners. It is also useful to those who are interested in resolving, or being able to understand and address theoretical and methodological issues that are inherent in any evaluation study." (Daniela C. Schroter, Western Michigan University 2006-01-25)

About the Author

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis).  The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761908943
• ISBN 13: 9780761908944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 480