Program Evaluation: A Primer for Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

This timely, unique, and insightful 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.

The chapters are organized according to the main tasks involved in conducting an evaluation to produce unbiased evidence of program effec...