Evaluation and experiment : some critical issues in assessing social programs /
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Academic Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | 1975. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Quantitive Studies in Social Relations
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Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780120888504 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 553 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9780120888504 0120888505 |
Index Number: | H62 |
CLC: | C91 |
Contents: |
Social program evaluation : definitions and issues / Assessing social innovations : an empirical base for policy / Making the case for randomized assignment to treatments by considering the alternatives : six ways in which quasi-experimental evaluations in compensatory education tend to underestimate effects / Regression and selection models to improve nonexperimental comparisons / Field trial designs in gauging the impact of fertility planning programs / Experiments and evaluations : a reexamination / Feedback in social systems : operational and systemic research on production, maintenance, control and adaptive functions / Assessing alternative conceptions of evaluation / |