Evaluation: A Systematic Approach

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

ISBN 10: 0761908935 / ISBN 13: 9780761908937

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761908935
• ISBN 13: 9780761908937
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

The book that has been a benchmark in evaluation has just gotten better. 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, 6th 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 coverage to launch evaluation into the next millennium:

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.