Evaluation: A Systematic Approach - Softcover

Rossi, Peter H.; Lipsey, Mark W.; Henry, Gary T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506307884 ISBN 13: 9781506307886

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2019

Synopsis

The long-awaited new edition is here!  

Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, by Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Gary T. Henry, is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the field of program evaluation, covering the range of evaluation research activities used in appraising the design, implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency of social programs. Evaluation domains are presented in a coherent framework that not only explores each, but recognizes their interrelationships, their role in improving social programs and the outcomes they are designed to affect, and their embeddedness in social and political context.   

Relied on as the "gold standard" by professors, students, and practitioners for 40 years, the new Eighth Edition includes a new practical chapter on planning an evaluation, entirely new examples throughout, and a major re-organization of the book’s content to better serve the needs of program evaluation courses

About this title

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.

 

Duncan and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Education Policy Initiative at Carolina

Review:

"This thoughtfully-designed text provides an update on a classic tool for understanding evaluation." Author: Brian Boggs

"This is another exceptional work by the authors. This book not only helps novice evaluators, it also provides tools for expert evaluators. This new edition brings new cases and exhibits that connect the theory to practice and contextualizes the content for students: students can visualize and understand the content as they relate it to their own professional lives." Author: Osman Özturgut

"The material in the Eighth Edition is effectively sequenced, and the technical orientation of the chapters makes the book an indispensable partner even for seasoned scholars and practitioners in the art of program evaluation." Author: Kalu Kalu

"I have used previous editions of this text either as a student or professor for 20 years. This new edition is a great update of a reliable textbook on evaluation, including updated terminology and methodology." Author: Kimberley Shoaf

"The Eighth Edition of Evaluation is a massive improvement on an already stellar text. The breadth and depth of coverage―while still keeping a practical focus―make this the go-to book for program evaluation classes and practitioners alike." Author: B. Andrew Chupp

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1506307884
• ISBN 13: 9781506307886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360