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Systematic Thinking for Social Action

By Alice M. Rivlin

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Hardcover:

9780815774785 | Brookings Inst Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9780815726449 | Reissue edition (Brookings Inst Pr, March 24, 2015), cover price $18.00

9780815774778 | Brookings Inst Pr, July 1, 1971, cover price $18.95

Show Me the Evidence: Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy

Product Description: The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success...read more

By Greg Margolis

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9780815725718 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 2014, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives.

Fighting for Reliable EvidenceÃ¿

By Howard Rolston

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9780871544933, titled "Fighting for Reliable EvidenceÂ " | Russell Sage Foundation, June 30, 2013, cover price $49.95

Essentials of Utilization-focused Evaluation: A Primer

By Michael Quinn Patton

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9781412977418 | Sage Pubns, August 22, 2011, cover price $79.00

Evaluating With Validity

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Hardcover:

9780803914384 | Sage Pubns, July 1, 1980, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9781617351310 | Information Age Pub Inc, October 8, 2010, cover price $34.95

Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines

By Jody L. Fitzpatrick, James R. Sanders and Blaine R. Worthen

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Hardcover:

9780205579358 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, September 27, 2010), cover price $193.20

9780321077066 | 3 sub edition (Allyn & Bacon, August 1, 2003), cover price $143.33

Paperback:

9780801307744 | 2nd edition (Longman Pub Group, December 1, 1996), cover price $97.20

Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies

Product Description: Comprehensive yet accessible, this book provides a practical introduction to the skills, attitudes, and methods required to assess the worth and value of human services offered in public and private organizations in a wide range of fields...read more

By Raymond G. Carey and Emil J. Posavac

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9780132275606 | 7 edition (Taylor & Francis, July 1, 2006), cover price $123.20 | About this edition: Comprehensive yet accessible, this book provides a practical introduction to the skills, attitudes, and methods required to assess the worth and value of human services offered in public and private organizations in a wide range of fields.

9780130409669 | 6 edition (Taylor & Francis, June 1, 2002), cover price $105.80

9780132553322 | 5 sub edition (Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1996), cover price $71.00

9780136781295 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1991, cover price $62.00 | also contains Sharpe's Honour | About this edition: An overview of the techniques needed to implement and carry out useful programme evaluations.

Sharpe's Honour

Product Description: An overview of the techniques needed to implement and carry out useful programme evaluations. This fourth edition places emphasis upon various models of evaluation to assist readers in conceptualizing evaluation. It also contains more material on needs assessment.

By Frederick Davidson (narrator)

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9780136781295, titled "Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies" | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1991, cover price $62.00 | also contains Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies | About this edition: An overview of the techniques needed to implement and carry out useful programme evaluations.

Evaluation in Action: Interviews With Expert Evaluators

By Melvin M. Mark (editor)

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9781412949743 | Sage Pubns, July 29, 2008, cover price $73.00

Utilization-Focused Evaluation

The second edition of Pattonâ²s classic text retains the practical advice of the original. It shows how to conduct an evaluation in a way that will be useful -- and actually used. Patton has included new stories, new examples, new research findings, and more of his evaluation humour. He adds to the original bookâ²s insights into the changes in evaluation during the past decade and incorporates recent research on utilization.

By Michael Quinn Patton

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Hardcover:

9780803927797 | 2 sub edition (Sage Pubns, July 1, 1986), cover price $52.00

Paperback:

9781412958615 | 4th edition (Sage Pubns, June 18, 2008), cover price $113.00

9780803925663 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, March 1, 1986), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The second edition of Pattonâ²s classic text retains the practical advice of the original.

Congress and Program Evaluation: An Overview of Randomized Controlled Trials (Rcts) and Related Issues

By Erin D. Williams (editor)

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9781604563979 | Nova Science Pub Inc, January 30, 2009, cover price $57.00

Informing Federal Policies on Evaluation Methodology: Building the Evidence Base for Method Choice in Government Sponsored Evaluations

By George Julnes and Debra J. Rog

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9780787997342 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, April 20, 2007), cover price $29.00

The Digest of Social Experiments

Product Description: Social experiments provide the most reliable guide to potential impacts of policy change because their methodology allows analysts to isolate the effect of the policy change from other, potentially distorting factors. This revised and updated edition of the Digest of Social Experiments documents 240 completed and 21 ongoing social experiments...read more

By David H. Greenberg and Mark Shroder

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9780877666486 | 2 sub edition (Urban Inst Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $73.50 | About this edition: This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families, or organizations were randomly assigned to alternative policy regimes, to see what difference a policy change would make in their everyday behavior.

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9780877667223 | 3 edition (Urban Inst Pr, April 1, 2004), cover price $73.50 | About this edition: Social experiments provide the most reliable guide to potential impacts of policy change because their methodology allows analysts to isolate the effect of the policy change from other, potentially distorting factors.

9780877666493, titled "Digest of Social Experiments" | 2 edition (Urban Inst Pr, June 1, 1997), cover price $22.01

The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences

Product Description: This work is a resource for programme evaluators and researchers who want to inform the practice of service learning. It advocates the use of multiple-item scales, presents the rationale for their use, and explains how readers can evaluate them for reliability and validity.

By Robert G. Bringle, Michael Hudson and Mindy A. Phillips

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9781591470779 | 1 edition (Amer Psychological Assn, November 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This work is a resource for programme evaluators and researchers who want to inform the practice of service learning.

Evaluation in Practice: A Methodological Approach

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By Richard D. Bingham and Claire L. Felbinger

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Hardcover:

9781889119571 | 2 edition (Cq Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $119.00

9780815333173 | 2 sub edition (Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1999), cover price $70.00

Paperback:

9780815333180 | 2 edition (Taylor & Francis, August 1, 1999), cover price $34.95

9780801302169 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, October 1, 1988, cover price $27.95

Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs

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By Rosemary A. Chalk (editor), David Cordray, Diana English (editor), Jeffrey Fagan (editor), Richard Gelles (editor), Institute of Medicine (other contributor) and National Research Council (U. S.) Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions (other contributor)

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9780309054966 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $42.95

Exemplary Social Intervention Programs for Members and Their Families

Product Description: In this uplifting book, a number of organizations and individuals are featured as exemplary prototypes whose experiences are worthy of being disseminated to persons working in the social services. In a coherent and coordinated manner, the organizations presented reveal how their programs function to make a difference...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Guttmann (editor) and Marvin B. Sussman (editor)

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9781560247074 | Routledge, February 1, 1995, cover price $77.95 | About this edition: In this uplifting book, a number of organizations and individuals are featured as exemplary prototypes whose experiences are worthy of being disseminated to persons working in the social services.

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9780789002143 | Routledge, April 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this uplifting book, a number of organizations and individuals are featured as exemplary prototypes whose experiences are worthy of being disseminated to persons working in the social services.

Family Assessment Form: A Practice-Based Approach to Assessing Family Functioning

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9780878686889 | Child Welfare League of Amer, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text

Product Description: Both practical and theoretical, Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text, Third Edition tells how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and actual case examples to illustrate major points...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Quinn Patton

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9780803952645 | 3 edition (Sage Pubns, February 1, 1997), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Both practical and theoretical, Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text, Third Edition tells how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed.

Paperback:

9780803952652 | 3 sub edition (Sage Pubns, February 1, 1997), cover price $77.95

Evaluating Social Programs at the State and Local Level: The Jtpa Evaluation Design Project

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By Ann Bonar Blalock (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780880990899 | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1990, cover price $40.00

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9780880990905 | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by

Children, Youth, and Families: The Action-Research Relationship

Product Description: This book, first published in 1986, examines the connections between basic research in the social sciences, and political and social action to improve the situations of children, youth, and families. In the 1950s and 1960s, following the many effective applications of their work during World War II, there was a vigorous interplay as well as division between social scientists and those engaged in programme development...read more

By Robert N. Rapoport (editor)

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9780521301435 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book, first published in 1986, examines the connections between basic research in the social sciences, and political and social action to improve the situations of children, youth, and families.

Paperback:

9780521143691 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 24, 2010, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book, first published in 1986, examines the connections between basic research in the social sciences, and political and social action to improve the situations of children, youth, and families.

Collecting Evaluation Data: Problems and Solutions

Product Description: Data collection problems seldom surface as a prominent issue in evaluation studies, yet their impact on final evaluation results is often profound. In this collection of papers, the contributors focus on three major issues: data sensitivity; large-scale field studies; and quality of records information...read more

By Leigh Burstein

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9780803924499 | Sage Pubns, June 1, 1985, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Data collection problems seldom surface as a prominent issue in evaluation studies, yet their impact on final evaluation results is often profound.

Applications of Time Series Analysis to Evaluation

By Garlie A. Forehand (editor)

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9780875899183 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, December 1, 1982, cover price $12.95

Making Evaluation Research Useful to Congress

By Leonard Saxe (editor)

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9780875899169 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 1, 1982, cover price $8.95

Evaluating Your Agency's Programs

By Michael J. Austin

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9780803909892 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1982, cover price $21.95

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