Program Evaluation - 9780205804979

Program Evaluation offers techniques to plan services wisely, track the degree of actual implementation of the plans, and measure the effectiveness of the services. It provides an overview of the techniques of program evaluation in an accessible writing style. In it, readers are guided from an initial conception of evaluation, through planning, observation gathering, analysis, and report writing and presentation. It puts a human face on evaluation by providing sketches of nine program evaluators, as well as discussion questions prompting readers to test their use of the skills.

"I believe that the use of case studies and evaluator profiles is beneficial to help students realize that evaluation studies are done by "real people" in human services. Too often students think they will never do evaluative studies, or in a course teaching practice evaluation students become overwhelmed with material when it is presented in an abstract manner. The approach of Posavac's text appears to be hands-on friendly, which is very appealing." ---Donette Considine Aurora University