Evaluative Research: Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action ProgrDescribes the techniques used to determine the extent to which social goals are being achieved, to locate the barriers to these goals, and to discover the unanticipated results of social actions. The book is divided into three main sections: the conceptual, methodological, and administrative aspects of evaluation. |
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Table des matières
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11 | |
27 | |
Chapter IV Types and Categories of Evaluation
| 51 |
Chapter V The Conduct of Evaluative Research
| 74 |
Chapter VI The Evaluative Research Design
| 91 |
Chapter VII The Measurement of Effects
| 115 |
Chapter VIII Evaluation and Program Administration | 132 |
Chapter IX The Administration of Evaluation Studies
| 151 |
Chapter X The Social Experiment and the Future of Evaluative Research
| 169 |
Index
| 179 |
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Evaluative Research; Principles and Practice in Public Service & Social ... Edward Allen Suchman Affichage d'extraits - 1967 |
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