Program Evaluation

This book provides students and practitioners with the tools and skills needed to evaluate social and policy programs across a range of disciplines - from public health to social work to education - enabling the allocation of scarce human and financial resources to advance the health and well-being of individuals and populations.

Arlene Fink, Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is an expert in program evaluation, survey research, and research methodology found at the intersection of public health and medicine. She has conducted and advised on more than 40 program evaluations in numerous fields from education to medicine and has lectured nationally and internationally. Dr. Fink is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and ten textbooks.

1. Introducing Program Evaluation 2. Evaluation Questions and Evidence of Effectiveness, Quality, and Value 3. Designing Program Evaluations 4. Sampling in Program Evaluations 5: Collecting Program Evaluation Information 6. Evaluation Measures 7. Managing Evaluation Data and Managing the Evaluation 8. Analyzing Evaluation Data 9. Evaluation Reports- tables numbers don't make sense (order and repeats)