How to Design a Program Evaluation

by Carol T. Fitz-Gibbon

• ISBN13: 9780803931282
• ISBN10: 080393128X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-12-01
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

Education, business and human service settings are included in this revised edition of How to Design a Program Evaluation. Additional examples in these fields makes this volume more relevant to a wider audience in comparison with the first edition.Through the use of diagrams, step-by-step directions, flow charts, and extensive examples, the book shows how a variety of design options can be conceived and implemented. Focusing on quantitative designs, it shows what to do when things go wrong and presents detailed methods for collecting, analyzing, and presenting data for each design.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(9)
An Introduction to Evaluation Design	9	(16)
Designs in Summative Evaluation	11	(3)
Designs in Formative Evaluation	14	(6)
Evaluation Where Design Presents Problems: Programs Aimed at Special Populations	20	(4)
For Further Reading	24	(1)
The Elements of Design	25	(30)
Groups	25	(10)
The Times at Which Measurements Are Made	35	(13)
Selecting a Design	48	(7)
Designs---An Overview	55	(10)
The Notation Used for Diagramming Each Design	55	(1)
Design 1: The True Control Group, Pretest-Posttest Design	56	(1)
Design 2: The True Control Group, Posttest Only Design	57	(1)
Design 3: The Non-Equivalent Control Group, Pretest-Posttest Design	58	(1)
Design 4: The Single Group Time Series Design	58	(3)
Design 5: The Time Series with a Non-Equivalent Control Group	61	(1)
Design 6: The Before-and-After Design	62	(1)
Major Threats to the Implementation of Designs	62	(2)
For Further Reading	64	(1)
Design 1, 2, and 3: The Control Group Designs	65	(32)
Design 1: The True Control Group, Pretest-Posttest Design	65	(15)
Design 2: The True Control Group, Posttest Only Design	80	(6)
Design 3: The Non-Equivalent Control Group, Pretest-Posttest Design	86	(10)
For Further Reading	96	(1)
Design 4 and 5: The Time Series Designs	97	(20)
Design 4: The Single Group Time Series Design	97	(17)
Design 5: The Time Series with a Non-Equivalent Control Group	114	(3)
Design 6: The Before-and-After Design	117	(11)
Design 6: The Before-and-After Design	117	(11)
A More Complex Design: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)	128	(12)
Summary	137	(2)
For Further Reading	139	(1)
How to Randomize	140	(26)
The Unit of Analysis Problem	140	(4)
Random Assignment of Students, Classrooms, or Schools to Programs	144	(17)
Selecting a Random Sample	161	(4)
For Further Reading	165	(1)
References	166	(1)
Index	167