Evaluation: A Systematic Approach

Rossi, Peter Henry; Freeman, Howard E.

ISBN 10: 0803934890 / ISBN 13: 9780803934894

Published by Sage Pubns, 1990

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Fourth edition, boards show light edgewear, tight binding, clean, 496 bright white pages, light judiciously applied yellow highlighting in first quarter of book none thereafter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
• Publisher: Sage Pubns
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803934890
• ISBN 13: 9780803934894
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 37 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This most succesful textbook achieves its fourth edition substantially reorganized and with examples and references updated. New to this edition are: richer treatment of formative evaluation procedures; deeper examination of cost effectiveness; a more practical approach to costs benefits analysis; full exploration of the issues regarding the utilization of evaluations; updated coverage of qualitative research and examples from the late 80′s; a realistic view of practical ethics.

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.