Contents
Foreword
Preface
Evaluation Research: An Overview
Part I: Basic Issues: Program Development and Scientific Inquiry
1. Prospects and Possibilites: The New Deal and the New Social Research // A. Stephen Stephan
2. Evaluating Educational Programs // Edward A. Suchman
3. Program Evaluation Models and the Implementation of Research Findings // Herbert C. Schulberg and Frank Baker
Part II. The Organizational Context: Establishing and Maintaining the Evaluation Research Role
4. Some Thoughts on Giving People Economic Advice // Anthony Downs
5. Organizational Strains in the Research-Practitioner Relationship // Hyman Rodman and Ralph Kolodny
6. The Politics of Evaluation in Higher Education // Ernest R. House
7. Program Management and the Federal Evaluator // Pamela Horst, Joe N. Nay, John W. Scanlon, and Joseph S. Wholey
8. Between the Cup and the Lip // Carol H. Weiss
9. The Need for Research on the Communication of Research Results // Floyd Mann and Rensis Likert
Part III: Methodological Issues: Measurement and Design
10. Evaluation of Social Programs // B. G. Greenberg
11. Evaluative Studies of Institutions for Delinquents: Implications for Research and Social Policy // Paul Lerman
12. Reforms as Experiments // Donald T. Campbell
13. Research in Large-Scale Intervention Programs // Howard E. Freeman and Clarence C. Sherwood
14. Toward Avoiding the Goal-Trap in Evaluation Research // Irwin Deutscher
15. Boobytraps and Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Social Action Programs // Peter H. Rossi
Part IV: Case Materials
16. The Evaluation of Broad-Aim Programs: A Cautionary Case and a Moral // Robert S. Weiss and Martin Rein
17. The Evolution of an Evaluation: Methodological Problems in Programs for School-Age Mothers // Lorraine V. Klerman, James F. Jekel, John B. Currie, Ira W. Gabrielson, and Philip M. Sarrel
18. Experimental Methodology and Innovative Social Programming // Francis G. Caro
19. The External Politics of the National Income Transfer Experiment // Peter H. Rossi and Katharine C. Lyall
20. Responding to Skid Row Alcoholism: Self-Defeating Arrangements in an Innovative Treatment Program // Lincoln J. Fry and Jon Miller
21. An Experiment on the Social Effects of Good Housing // F. Stuart Chapin
22. The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: A Summary // George L. Kelling, Tony Pate, Duane Dieckman, and Charles E. Brown
23. The Impact of Head Start: Executive Summary // Victor Cicarelli
24. Head Start: Comments on the Criticisms // John W. Evans
25. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the OEO Legal Services Program // Anthony Champagne
26. Champagne's Assessment of Legal Services Programs: An Evaluation of an Evaluation // Richard A. Berk
27. A Reply to Berk // Anthony Champagne
28. A National Evaluation of Community Services and the Quality of Life in American New Towns // Raymond ]. Burby, III, Shirley F. Weiss, and Robert B. Zehner
29. Acute Myocardial Infarction: Home and Hospital Treatment // H. G. Mather, N. G. Pearson, K. L. Q. Read, D. B. Shaw, G. R. Steed, M. G. Thorne, S. Jones, C. J. Guerrier, C. D. Eraut, P. M. McHugh, N. R. Chowdbury, M. H. Jafary, and T. J. Wallace
30. Determining the Social Effects of a Legal Reform: The British "Breathalyser" Crackdown of 1967 // H. Laurence Ross, Donald T. Campbell, and Gene V. Glass