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Product Description: This book is one of the first of its kind to bring together a variety of perspectives on evaluation from a multidisciplinary international perspective. The book, with its content derived from leading experts in their chosen fields of practice, illustrates the potential of evaluation to demonstrate the impact and efficiency of social interventions...read more
By Satu Kalliola (editor)

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9781443856379 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, April 15, 2014, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: This book is one of the first of its kind to bring together a variety of perspectives on evaluation from a multidisciplinary international perspective.

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Product Description: In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of changes in governmental programmes. Across Europe, the US, Canada and Australia, microsimulation models are used extensively to assess who are the winners and losers from proposed policy reforms; this is now expanding into new frontiers, both geographically and in terms of policy areas...read more
By Ann Harding (editor), Paul Williamson (editor) and Asghar Zaidi (editor)

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9780754676478 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 23, 2009, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of changes in governmental programmes.

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Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to examine the concept and measurement of 'effectiveness', now increasingly employed to evaluate the kinds of operations where success cannot be judged in monetary terms. A philosopher comments on the development of the concepts of 'cause' and 'effect' from classical times to the present; a systems engineer looks at the possibility of using the parameter for the evaluation of coherent systems; a restoration ecologist discusses the parameters used in reforestation and their relation to effectiveness considered at different levels; a sociologist relates the methodologies used in this discipline to evaluate the effectiveness of health programs; an expert of education discusses the applicability of the measurement of effectiveness to the functioning of schools; a specialist in aid to developing countries describes the effectiveness of operations from the implementation of major projects to demining operations; a consultant on foreign aid highlights the cultural perception of efficacy in developing countries; finally, an anthropologist examines the relationship between 'effectiveness' and 'efficiency' in food intake and production between two different populations living in the same region, a semi-nomadic agro-pastoralist and a settled agriculturalist one...read more

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9781843830214 | Boydell Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The purpose of this volume is to examine the concept and measurement of 'effectiveness', now increasingly employed to evaluate the kinds of operations where success cannot be judged in monetary terms.

In this collective portrait, editors and authors do not attempt to draw systematic, country-by-country comparisons. Given the magnitude of the issues, they believed that it would be inappropriate to paint with too broad a stroke. What they have accomplished, however, is to codify and identify what the participants repeatedly noted in regard to issues and difficulties inherent in conducting outcome evaluation. These include: varying definitions of outcome; complexities in measuring outcomes of particular interventions with different groups of consumers and documenting the effectiveness of the intervention; the tendency to focus on evaluation of process more than outcome; the challenge of involving practitioners in the evaluation task, in part because its value is unclear to them or perceived as distant or untrustworthy; the typical inadequacy of resources available for systematic evaluation; and the need to inject rigor into the design and execution of evaluation projects. The authors demonstrate strong conviction about sharing research expertise across national boundaries; learning through each other how to cope with organizational impediments to cross-national collaboration; and strengthening the interaction between practice and research. Their contributions suggest that there is wide interest in pursuing cross-national collaboration. In recent years, largely in response to demands by their funding sources for accountability, assessment of performance, and cost effectiveness, researchers in human services have been devoting increased attention to outcome evaluation. Limited attention, however, has been given to the findings of evaluation studies conducted in different countries. The present volume has been organized and edited to address the task of learning from outcome research across the world. Its goal, an extension of a major goal of the human services in any one country, is to improve life chances of vulnerable children and youth. (view table of contents)
By Cinzia Canali (editor), Anthony N. Maluccio (editor) and Tiziano Vecchiato (editor)

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9780202307046 | Aldine De Gruyter, December 1, 2002, cover price $55.95

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9780202307053 | Aldine De Gruyter, December 1, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: In this collective portrait, editors and authors do not attempt to draw systematic, country-by-country comparisons.

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Product Description: Today's evaluators are being challenged to help design and evaluate social programs intended to prevent and ameliorate complex social problems in a variety of settings, including schools, communities, and not-for-profit and for-profit organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780805841848 | Taylor & Francis, July 1, 2002, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Today's evaluators are being challenged to help design and evaluate social programs intended to prevent and ameliorate complex social problems in a variety of settings, including schools, communities, and not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.

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Product Description: Many different organizations and institutions around the world came together for a conference to discuss the meaning of evaluation in poverty reduction. Their goals during the two day conference were: first, to identify lessons from past efforts to evaluate poverty reduction programs; second, to search for the new evaluation frontier in methodology for future poverty reduction programs; and third, to discuss how partnerships in evaluation can be promoted and how to use evaluation results more effectively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Osvaldo Nestor Feinstein (editor), Robert Picciotto (editor) and James D. Wolfensohn (foreword by)

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9780821346846 | World Bank, February 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Many different organizations and institutions around the world came together for a conference to discuss the meaning of evaluation in poverty reduction.

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Product Description: Proceedings of the 1994 world Bank Conference. Evaluation and development with case studies.
By Robert Picciotto (editor) and Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780821334669 | World Bank, October 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Proceedings of the 1994 world Bank Conference.

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Product Description: Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not have been learned by other, and cheaper, means? Could the experiments have been better designed or analyzed? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume, the result of a conference on social experimentation sponsored in 1981 by the National Bureau of Economic Research...read more

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9780226319407 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs.

Product Description: The varying opinions and viewpoints presented in The Evaluation of Social Programs offer a lively debate over the uses of evaluation research and its practical applications in a multitude of settings -- a debate which has serious and far-reaching implications for social scientists, government policy-makers, and all other 'producers' and 'consumers' of applied social research...read more

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9780803907355 | Sage Pubns, January 1, 1977, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The varying opinions and viewpoints presented in The Evaluation of Social Programs offer a lively debate over the uses of evaluation research and its practical applications in a multitude of settings -- a debate which has serious and far-reaching implications for social scientists, government policy-makers, and all other 'producers' and 'consumers' of applied social research.

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9780803940000 | Sage Pubns, November 1, 1979, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The varying opinions and viewpoints presented in The Evaluation of Social Programs offer a lively debate over the uses of evaluation research and its practical applications in a multitude of settings -- a debate which has serious and far-reaching implications for social scientists, government policy-makers, and all other 'producers' and 'consumers' of applied social research.

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9780803912410 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1979, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Book by

Product Description: Key Factor Analysis is a logic system that describes the basic relationship between an organization, the society it serves, and its bearing on the future. Since its development in 1967 it has been widely adopted by administrators...read more
By Patricia A. Brady (editor)

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9780809307951 | 1 edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, August 1, 1976), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Key Factor Analysis is a logic system that describes the basic relationship between an organization, the society it serves, and its bearing on the future.

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