Evaluation Studies Review Annual: Volume 11 (Evaluation Studies Review Yearbook) - Hardcover

Cordray, David S.; Lipsey, Mark W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803925999 ISBN 13: 9780803925991

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Reflecting the creative ferment in the field of evaluation studies, ESRA Volume 11 is both comprehensive and exemplary in its coverage. The editors make a case for two separate approaches to the discipline, based upon a difference in purpose, function and method of inquiry: Programme evaluation, which is a service oriented, professional mode of evaluation, and Programme research, which primarily focuses on the assessment of cause-and-effect relationships, conceptual variables and links between these variables.

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About the Authors

David S. Cordray is Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology in Vanderbilt′s Peabody College. Professor Cordray′s research has focused on estimating the numerical effects of social interventions directed at-risk populations (e.g. homeless, substance abusers). In addition to conducting multi-site evaluations of intervention programs, he has contributed to the development of methodological refinements of quasi-experimental designs, meta-analysis, and non-traditional forms of causal inquiry.

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: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803925999
• ISBN 13: 9780803925991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736