How to Design a Program Evaluation

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.

Acknowledgments

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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

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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

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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

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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

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(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

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How to Randomize

140

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The Unit of Analysis Problem

140

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Random Assignment of Students, Classrooms, or Schools to Programs

144

(17)

Selecting a Random Sample

161

(4)

For Further Reading

165

(1)

References

166

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Index

167

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