Stephen A Kapp, Gary R Anderson

Agency-Based Program Evaluation

Lessons from Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Agency-based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice, by Stephen A. Kapp and Gary R. Anderson, serves as a core textbook in the advanced undergraduate and graduate social work program evaluation courses. It combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies and organizations to describe the effectiveness of their services and programs. Students will gain an understanding of the political and social context and pressures in which a program is developed, implemented and evaluated. This book offers a practice-oriented approach to evaluation. While many program evaluation methods texts often add a chapter or brief sections that describe organizational and political factors. Features and Benefits: combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies an understanding of the political and social context and pressures in which a program is developed, implemented and evaluated examples of the techniques to apply in family and children services agencies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 185mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781412939843
• ISBN-10: 1412939844
• Artikelnr.: 27430332

Autorenporträt

Stephen A. Kapp, MSW, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of  Kansas School of Social Welfare. Dr. Kapp has focused his career on agency-based program evaluation of children and family programs.  He has over twenty years of experience working both externally and internally on agency evaluations. His teaching and writing efforts have focused on evaluation with an emphasis on the use of information by agency staff and giving service recipients a voice in the evaluation process. Currently, he is managing research grants that examine the service experience of young offenders in the Kansas Mental Health System.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Purpose of This Book
Ch 1. Making the Case for Program Evaluation
Ch 2. Steps in Program Evaluation
Ch 3. Ethics and Program Evaluation: Applying a Code of Ethics to
Field-Based Research
Ch 4. Ethical Challenges for Evaluators in an Agency Setting: Making Good
Choices
Ch 5. Agencies and Academics: The Social and Political Context of Program
Evaluation
Ch 6. Cultural Competency and Program Evaluation
Ch 7. Program Definition: Using Program Logic Models to Develop a Common
Vision
Ch 8. Program Description: Evaluation Designs Using Available Information
Ch 9. Evaluation Design: Options for Supporting the Use of Information
Ch 10. Evaluation Design: Group Designs and Methods
Ch 11. Evaluation Design: Qualitative Designs and Applications
Ch 12. Consumer Satisfaction
Ch 13. Dissemination: Spreading the News
About the Authors