Program Evaluation Resources
Program Evaluation for Social Workers by Call Number: Doheny Memorial Library, HV40 .G75 2012ISBN: 9780199859054Publication Date: 2012-02-15Now in its sixth edition, this popular student-friendly introduction to program evaluation provides social workers with a sound conceptual understanding of how to use basic evaluation techniques in the evaluation of their cases (case-level) and programs (program-level).Eminently approachable, straightforward, and practical, this edition includes the fundamental tools that are needed in order for social workers to fully appreciate and understand how case- and program-level evaluations will help them to increase their effectiveness as contemporary data-drivenpractitioners.
Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation by Call Number: Von KleinSmid Center, H97 .H358 2015ISBN: 9781118893609Publication Date: 2015-08-31The leading program evaluation reference, updated with the latest tools and techniques The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs.
Agency-Based Program Evaluation by Call Number: Doheny Memorial Library, HV41 .K277 2010ISBN: 9781412939843Publication Date: 2009-12-10This text aids both students and practitioners in articulating the elements of program evaluation, deepening their understanding of the contextual issues that surround and shape an evaluation.
- Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation by ISBN: 9781118893609Publication Date: 2015-08-31The leading program evaluation reference, updated with the latest tools and techniques The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs.
- Agency-Based Program Evaluation by ISBN: 9781412939843Publication Date: 2009-12-10This text aids both students and practitioners in articulating the elements of program evaluation, deepening their understanding of the contextual issues that surround and shape an evaluation.
Credibility, Validity, and Assumptions in Program Evaluation Methodology by ISBN: 3319190210Publication Date: 2015-08-10This book focuses on assumptions underlying methods choice in program evaluation. Credible program evaluation extends beyond the accuracy of research designs to include arguments justifying the appropriateness of methods.
- American Journal of EvaluationAmerican Journal of Evaluation (AJE) explores decisions and challenges related to conceptualizing, designing and conducting evaluations.
- Evaluation and Program PlanningThe primary goals of the journal are to assist evaluators and planners to improve the practice of their professions, to develop their skills and to improve their knowledge base. Articles from the private and public sectors in a wide range of areas: organizational development and behavior, training, planning, human resource development, health and mental wellbeing, social services, corrections, substance abuse, and education.
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE)This is an open access journal intended to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends, and research developments from a variety of settings. Manuscripts published in PARE are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about methodological issues and practices.
- AGELINE This link opens in a new windowContent focus on social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. Includes abstracts of over 200 academic journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations from 1978 to present.
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowMost comprehensive database of full-text for nursing & allied health journals from 1937 to present. Includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.
- ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThis database contains information on published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. Updated monthly.
- ProQuest Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new windowProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. In addition to scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice.
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new windowPsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development. Records also discuss reliability and validity of the tool. Some records include full-text of the test.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed provides access to millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Limit your search to 'free full-text' to find items freely available without subscriptions.
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSocial Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
- Encyclopedia of EvaluationThe Encyclopedia of Evaluation is an authoritative, first-of-its-kind who, what, where, why, and how of the field of evaluation.
- Encyclopedia of Social MeasurementThe Encyclopedia of Social Measurement captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena.
- Handbook of Practical Program EvaluationThe leading program evaluation reference, updated with the latest tools and techniques The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs.
- Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement and EvaluationThe SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation covers important sociopolitical issues and trends influencing the future of that research and practice
- BJA's Center for Research Partnerships and Program Evaluationinformation on practitioner-researcher partnerships, performance measures, logic models, program evaluation, and other important information to devise solutions to improve the quality, quantity, and equity of criminal justice and public safety services.
- Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThe Framework for Evaluation in Public Health[1] guides public health professionals in their use of program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of program evaluation.
- Child Welfare Information GatewayUse the following resources to identify evaluation strategies, make an economic case for child abuse prevention, and find results of prevention program evaluations.
- American Evaluation AssociationThe American Evaluation Association exists to contribute to the common good by improving evaluation theory, practice, and methods; increasing evaluation use promoting evaluation as a profession; and supporting the contribution of evaluation to the theory and knowledge about effective human action and equitable systems and markets.
- Better EvaluationBetterEvaluation is a not-for-profit organization and registered charity that operates globally. Its mission is to work collaboratively with the global community to create, share and support use of knowledge about how to better plan, manage, conduct and use evaluation.
- CDC Program Performance and Evaluation OfficeThe Evaluation Unit in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO)
sets standards and expectations for agency-wide evaluation;
delivers tools, technical assistance and resources to enhance evaluation efforts; and
provides support for evaluation capacity-building across CDC programs. - Evaluating Program, Practice, and Service EffectivenessFrom the Child Welfare Information Gateway, the following resources help administrators and program managers design and conduct evaluations and to use evaluation findings to improve services and benefit staff and the families they serve.
- IssueLabFoundation Center‘s mission is to connect nonprofits and funders to the knowledge they need to do their jobs better and to deepen the impact of their efforts.