Evaluation and Experiment ：Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs

Publication subTitle ：Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs

Author： Bennett   Carl A.;Lumsdaine   Arthur A.  

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781483260846

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780120888504

Subject： C912.6 Social psychology and social behavior

Keyword： 社会学,政治理论

Language： ENG

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Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs is a collection of papers presented at the 1973 symposium held at The Battelle Seattle Research Center. This book contains eight chapters that consider some selected aspects of the problems in evaluating the outcomes of socially important programs, such as those dealing with education, health, and economic policy.

The first chapter provides an overview of the issues around the Social Program Evaluation. The next chapters deal with the successes and failures brought by social innovations; the quasi-experimental evaluation in compensatory education to estimate the true effects of such education programs; and the usefulness and validity of econometric and related nonexperimental approaches for assessing the effects of social programs. These topics are followed by surveys of a number of additional program-evaluation studies, particularly in the field of family planning or fertility control, mostly carried out as experiments or quasi-experiments in Asian and Latin American countries. Other chapters describe the decision processes that involve explicit assessment of the worth or merit of outcomes and employ multivalued utility analysis and outline the ways in which evaluative data are useful in providing feedback to program or institutional operations and decisions. The final chapter discusses resolutions for some of the disagreements expressed by others concerning the role of field experiments, con

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Front Cover

Front Cover

Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs

Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs

Copyright Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Evaluation and Experiment

Part 1: Evaluation and Experiment

Chapter 1. Social Program Evaluation: Definitions and Issues

Chapter 1. Social Program Evaluation: Definitions and Issues

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS OF EVALUATION

II. PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS OF EVALUATION

III. METHODOLOGY IN IMPACT ASSESSMENT

III. METHODOLOGY IN IMPACT ASSESSMENT

IV. ASSESSMENT AND VALUE JUDGMENTS

IV. ASSESSMENT AND VALUE JUDGMENTS

V. SOME ORGANIZATIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES

V. SOME ORGANIZATIONAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES

VI. CRITICAL ISSUES

VI. CRITICAL ISSUES

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 2. Assessing Social Innovations: An Empirical Base for Policy

Chapter 2. Assessing Social Innovations: An Empirical Base for Policy

I. THE GENERAL IDEA

I. THE GENERAL IDEA

II. INTRODUCTION

II. INTRODUCTION

III. THREE INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLES

III. THREE INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLES

IV. RATINGS OF INNOVATIONS

IV. RATINGS OF INNOVATIONS

V. FINDINGS FROM NONRANDOMIZED STUDIES

V. FINDINGS FROM NONRANDOMIZED STUDIES

VI. ISSUES RELATED TO RANDOMIZATION

VI. ISSUES RELATED TO RANDOMIZATION

VII. ISSUES OF FEASIBILITY IN INSTALLING PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

VII. ISSUES OF FEASIBILITY IN INSTALLING PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

VIII. COSTS, TIMELINESS, AND RANDOMIZED FIELD STUDIES

VIII. COSTS, TIMELINESS, AND RANDOMIZED FIELD STUDIES

IX. ISSUES THAT ARISE IN IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIONS

IX. ISSUES THAT ARISE IN IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIONS

X. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

X. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 3. Making the Case for Randomized Assignment to Treatments by Considering the Alternatives: Six Ways in Which Quasi-Experimental Evaluations In Compensatory Education Tend to Underestimate Effects

Chapter 3. Making the Case for Randomized Assignment to Treatments by Considering the Alternatives: Six Ways in Which Quasi-Experimental Evaluations In Compensatory Education Tend to Underestimate Effects

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. COMMON SENSE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWING

II. COMMON SENSE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWING

III. EXPERIMENTATION IN EDUCATION

III. EXPERIMENTATION IN EDUCATION

IV. SIX SOURCES OF UNDERADJUSTMENT BIAS

IV. SIX SOURCES OF UNDERADJUSTMENT BIAS

V. SUMMARY COMMENTS

V. SUMMARY COMMENTS

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

APPENDIX

Chapter 4. Regression and Selection Models to Improve Nonexperimental Comparisons

Chapter 4. Regression and Selection Models to Improve Nonexperimental Comparisons

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO BIAS IN TREATMENT EFFECTS

II. AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO BIAS IN TREATMENT EFFECTS

III. ESTIMATION OF MODELS UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNKNOWN BIAS

III. ESTIMATION OF MODELS UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNKNOWN BIAS

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 5. Field Trial Designs in Gauging the Impact of Fertility Planning Programs

Chapter 5. Field Trial Designs in Gauging the Impact of Fertility Planning Programs

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. FIELD STUDIES OF FERTILITY PROGRAM IMPACTS

II. FIELD STUDIES OF FERTILITY PROGRAM IMPACTS

III. IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF STUDY DESIGN EXEMPLIFIED

III. IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF STUDY DESIGN EXEMPLIFIED

IV. SPECIAL FEATURES OBSERVED IN FIELD EXPERIMENTS

IV. SPECIAL FEATURES OBSERVED IN FIELD EXPERIMENTS

V. MEASURES OF IMPACT USED IN FIELD STUDIES

V. MEASURES OF IMPACT USED IN FIELD STUDIES

VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 6. Experiments and Evaluations: A Reexamination

Chapter 6. Experiments and Evaluations: A Reexamination

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. DECISION ANALYSIS AS A PARADIGM FOR EVALUATION RESEARCH

II. DECISION ANALYSIS AS A PARADIGM FOR EVALUATION RESEARCH

III. SOME COMMENTS AND COMPLAINTS, MOSTLY ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS

III. SOME COMMENTS AND COMPLAINTS, MOSTLY ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS

IV. CONCLUSION

IV. CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 7. Feedback in Social Systems: Operational and Systemic Research on Production, Maintenance, Control, and Adaptive Functions

Chapter 7. Feedback in Social Systems: Operational and Systemic Research on Production, Maintenance, Control, and Adaptive Functions

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. TYPES OF FEEDBACK

II. TYPES OF FEEDBACK

III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK

III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK

IV. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SYSTEM FUNCTIONING THROUGH FEEDBACK

IV. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SYSTEM FUNCTIONING THROUGH FEEDBACK

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Chapter 8. Assessing Alternative Conceptions of Evaluation

Chapter 8. Assessing Alternative Conceptions of Evaluation

I. INTRODUCTION

I. INTRODUCTION

II. DETERMINATION OF IMPACT

II. DETERMINATION OF IMPACT

III. EVALUATION AND EXPERIMENT

III. EVALUATION AND EXPERIMENT

IV. DECISION VS. UNDERSTANDING

IV. DECISION VS. UNDERSTANDING

V. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION

V. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION

VI. SOME SUGGESTED CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

VI. SOME SUGGESTED CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

VII. SOURCES OF IDEAS

VII. SOURCES OF IDEAS

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