Evaluation and Program Planning

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Volume 60, issue C, 2017

A hybrid method for evaluating enterprise architecture implementation pp. 1-16

Fatemeh Nikpay, Rodina Ahmad and Chiam Yin Kia

Results from a psychometric assessment of a new tool for measuring evidence-based decision making in public health organizations pp. 17-23

Katherine A. Stamatakis, Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino, Peg Allen, Amy McQueen, Rebekah R. Jacob, Elizabeth A. Baker and Ross C. Brownson

Process evaluation of a preschool physical activity intervention using web-based delivery pp. 24-36

Ann Blair Kennedy, Michaela Schenkelberg, Christina Moyer, Russ Pate and Ruth P. Saunders

A participatory evaluation framework in the establishment and implementation of transdisciplinary collaborative centers for health disparities research pp. 37-45

Isabel C. Scarinci, Artisha Moore, Regina Benjamin, Selwyn Vickers, James Shikany and Mona Fouad

Evaluating social exclusion interventions in university-community partnerships pp. 46-55

Yuval Ofek

Dissemination and implementation science in program evaluation: A telemental health clinical consultation case example pp. 56-63

Prerna G. Arora, Elizabeth H. Connors, Angela Blizzard, Kelly Coble, Nicole Gloff and David Pruitt

The importance of matching the evaluation population to the intervention population: Using Medicaid data to reach hard-to-reach intervention populations pp. 64-71

Natoshia M. Askelson, Elizabeth H. Golembiewski, Barbara Baquero, Elizabeth T. Momany, Julia Friberg and Doris Montgomery

Who’s adopting the smarter lunchroom approach? Individual characteristics of innovative food service directors pp. 72-80

Gnel Gabrielyan, Andrew Hanks, Kathryn Hoy, David Just and Brian Wansink

Formative evaluation on a physical activity health promotion program for the group home setting pp. 81-90

Alicia Dixon-Ibarra, Simon Driver, Haley VanVolkenburg and Kathleen Humphries

Interaction dynamics: The case of the water sector skills plan in South Africa pp. 91-99

Laurane Moyo and Uta Wehn

Community health needs assessment and action planning in seven Dominican bateyes pp. 103-111

Sarah V. Suiter

Failing better: The stochastic art of evaluating community-led environmental action programs pp. 112-122

Ria A. Dunkley and Alex Franklin

Stakeholder’s perspective: Sustainability of a community health worker program in Afghanistan pp. 123-129

Said Ahmad Maisam Najafizada, Ronald Labonté and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Giving the community a voice: Lessons learned from a comprehensive survey in an urban neighborhood pp. 130-142

Tamar Mott Forrest, Dawn M. Wallace-Pascoe, Michael D. Webb and Howard Goldstein

Participation, satisfaction, perceived benefits, and maintenance of behavioral self-management strategies in a self-directed exercise program for adults with arthritis pp. 143-150

Patricia A. Sharpe, Sara Wilcox, Danielle E. Schoffman and Meghan Baruth

Fostering secure attachment in low- and middle-income countries: Suggestions for evidence-based interventions pp. 151-165

Michelle E. Alto and Christie L.M. Petrenko

Introduction to a special issue on concept mapping pp. 166-175

William M. Trochim and Daniel McLinden

Hindsight is 20/20: Reflections on the evolution of concept mapping pp. 176-185

William M. Trochim

A systematic review of concept mapping dissertations pp. 186-193

James P. Donnelly

Perspectives on the strategic uses of concept mapping to address public health challenges pp. 194-201

Lynda A. Anderson and Amy Slonim

An overview of concept mapping in Dutch mental health care pp. 202-212

Udo Nabitz, Carlijn van Randeraad-van der Zee, Ineke Kok, Marja van Bon-Martens and Peter Serverens

Concept mapping as a method to enhance evidence-based public health pp. 213-228

Marja J.H. van Bon-Martens, Ien A.M. van de Goor and Hans A.M. van Oers

Concept mapping methodology and community-engaged research: A perfect pairing pp. 229-237

Lisa M. Vaughn, Jennifer R. Jones, Emily Booth and Jessica G. Burke

Concept mapping—An effective method for identifying diversity and congruity in cognitive style pp. 238-244

Slavi Stoyanov, Kathryn Jablokow, Scott R. Rosas, Iwan G.J.H. Wopereis and Paul A. Kirschner

Concept mapping as an approach for expert-guided model building: The example of health literacy pp. 245-253

Renate Soellner, Norbert Lenartz and Georg Rudinger

Extending systems thinking in planning and evaluation using group concept mapping and system dynamics to tackle complex problems pp. 254-264

Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Jennifer Brown Urban, Leah Frerichs and Gaurav Dave

The use of concept mapping in measurement development and evaluation: Application and future directions pp. 265-276

Scott R. Rosas and John W. Ridings

Use of multiple cluster analysis methods to explore the validity of a community outcomes concept map pp. 277-283

Rebecca Orsi

R-CMap—An open-source software for concept mapping pp. 284-292

Haim Bar and Lucas Mentch

And then the internet happened: Thoughts on the future of concept mapping pp. 293-300

Daniel McLinden

Volume 59, issue C, 2016

Oral health-related quality of life improves in employees with disabilities following a workplace dental intervention pp. 1-6

Archana Pradhan, Dominic Keuskamp and David Brennan

An integrative theory-driven framework for evaluating travel training programs pp. 7-20

Chul Hyun Park, Eric W. Welch and P.S. Sriraj

Lessons learned while building a trauma-informed public behavioral health system in the City of Philadelphia pp. 21-32

Rinad S. Beidas, Danielle R. Adams, Hilary E. Kratz, Kamilah Jackson, Steven Berkowitz, Arturo Zinny, Lauren Pilar Cliggitt, Kathryn L. DeWitt, Laura Skriner and Arthur Evans

Development and psychometric testing of the childhood obesity perceptions (COP) survey among African American caregivers: A tool for obesity prevention program planning pp. 33-40

Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso and Chunhua Cao

Using the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) to assess barriers to healthy eating and active living in a low-income community pp. 41-46

Kelly R. Ylitalo, M.Renée Umstattd Meyer, Kahler Stone, Eva I. Doyle and Ramona Curtis

The use of Outcome Harvesting in learning-oriented and collaborative inquiry approaches to evaluation: An example from Calgary, Alberta pp. 47-54

Rida Abboud and Caroline Claussen

Perceived benefits and barriers and self-efficacy affecting the attendance of health education programs among uninsured primary care patients pp. 55-61

Akiko Kamimura, Maziar M. Nourian, Allison Jess, Alla Chernenko, Nushean Assasnik and Jeanie Ashby

Making sense of the emerging conversation in evaluation about systems thinking and complexity science pp. 62-73

Emily F. Gates

An empirical study of early childhood support through partnership building pp. 74-80

Jianjun Wang, Theresa Ortiz, Diana Navarro, Roland Maier, Summer Wang, Lisa Wang and Libing Wang

Implementation fidelity for promoting the effectiveness of an adolescent sexual health program pp. 81-87

Silvia Escribano, José P. Espada, Mireia Orgilés and Alexandra Morales

Evaluation of selected faculties at Tehran University of Medical Sciences using CIPP model in students and graduates point of view pp. 88-93

Narges Neyazi, Prof. Mohammad Arab, Freshteh Farzianpour and Mahmood Mahmoudi Majdabadi

Volume overview: Working with assumptions. Existing and emerging approaches for improved program design, monitoring and evaluation pp. 94-96

Apollo M. Nkwake and Nathan Morrow

Clarifying concepts and categories of assumptions for use in evaluation pp. 97-101

Apollo M. Nkwake and Nathan Morrow

Assumptions at the philosophical and programmatic levels in evaluation pp. 102-108

Donna M. Mertens

Interfacing theories of program with theories of evaluation for advancing evaluation practice: Reductionism, systems thinking, and pragmatic synthesis pp. 109-118

Huey T. Chen

Assumptions, conjectures, and other miracles: The application of evaluative thinking to theory of change models in community development pp. 119-127

Thomas Archibald, Guy Sharrock, Jane Buckley and Natalie Cook

Causal inferences on the effectiveness of complex social programs: Navigating assumptions, sources of complexity and evaluation design challenges pp. 128-140

Madhabi Chatterji

Assumption-aware tools and agency; an interrogation of the primary artifacts of the program evaluation and design profession in working with complex evaluands and complex contexts pp. 141-153

Nathan Morrow and Apollo M. Nkwake

Conclusion: Agency in the face of complexity and the future of assumption-aware evaluation practice pp. 154-160

Nathan Morrow and Apollo M. Nkwake

Volume 58, issue C, 2016

Narrative review of strategies by organizations for building evaluation capacity pp. 1-19

Sophie Norton, Andrew Milat, Barry Edwards and Michael Giffin

The historical path of evaluation as reflected in the content of Evaluation and Program Planning pp. 20-27

Abu H. Ayob and Jonathan A. Morell

Use of formative research and social network theory to develop a group walking intervention: Sumter County on the Move! pp. 28-34

Melinda Forthofer, Ericka Burroughs-Girardi, Liliana Stoisor-Olsson, Sara Wilcox, Patricia A. Sharpe and Linda M. Pekuri

A pilot evaluation of group-based programming offered at a Canadian outpatient adult eating disorders clinic pp. 35-41

Brad A. Mac Neil, Pauline Leung, Pallavi Nadkarni, Laura Stubbs and Manya Singh

Applying geo-spatial analysis in community needs assessment: Implications for planning and prioritizing based on data pp. 42-48

Kamran Baig, Mary Shaw-Ridley and Oscar J. Munoz

Wilderness adventure therapy effects on the mental health of youth participants pp. 49-59

Daniel J. Bowen, James T. Neill and Simon J.R. Crisp

Influencing secondary school STUDENTS’ conservation behavior intention through an interpretive education program on the malayan tapir pp. 60-69

E.a Lim, M. Manohar, Azlizam Aziz and M. Zakaria

Measuring progress towards MDGs in child health: Should base level sensitivity and inequity matter? pp. 70-81

Udaya S. Mishra

Bottleneck analysis and strategic planning using Tanahashi model for childhood diarrhea management in Gujarat, Western India pp. 82-87

Mihir Prafulbhai Rupani, Narayan T. Gaonkar and Gneyaa S. Bhatt

Steps towards incorporating heterogeneities into program theory: A case study of a data-driven approach pp. 88-97

Sanjeev Sridharan, Bobby Jones, Barry Caudill and April Nakaima

Lessons learnt from the CERCA Project, a multicomponent intervention to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health in three Latin America countries: a qualitative post-hoc evaluation pp. 98-105

Olena Ivanova, Kathya Cordova Pozo, Zoyla Esmeralda Segura, Bernardo Vega, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Michelle J. Hindin, Marleen Temmerman, Peter Decat, Sara De Meyer and Kristien Michielsen

Transforming a municipal school sports programme through a critical communicative methodology: The role of the of advisory committee pp. 106-115

Borja Jiménez-Herranz, Juan C. Manrique-Arribas, Víctor M. López-Pastor and Enrique García-Bengoechea

Evaluation and lessons learned from an undergraduate service learning course providing youth-focused relationship education pp. 116-124

Alyssa McElwain, Vanessa Finnegan, Angela Whittaker, Jennifer Kerpelman, Francesca Adler-Baeder and Adrienne Duke

A novel hybrid MCDM model for performance evaluation of research and technology organizations based on BSC approach pp. 125-140

Mohsen Varmazyar, Maryam Dehghanbaghi and Mehdi Afkhami

Looking for sufficient change: Evaluation of counsellor training for STI syndromic management in India pp. 141-151

Melita Vaz, Nisha Kadyan, Sumitha Chalil, Turlapati L.N. Prasad and Aman Kumar Singh

Psychometric properties of WLEIS as a measure of emotional intelligence in the Portuguese and Spanish medical students pp. 152-159

Vânia Sofia Carvalho, Eloísa Guerrero, Maria José Chambel and Pablo González-Rico

Studying the teaching of kindness: A conceptual model for evaluating kindness education programs in schools pp. 160-170

Deanna M. Kaplan, Madeleine deBlois, Violeta Dominguez and Michele E. Walsh

Using student satisfaction data to evaluate a new online accelerated nursing education program pp. 171-175

Elizabeth A. Gazza and April Matthias

Understanding change among multi-problem families: Learnings from a formative program assessment pp. 176-183

Lina Sapokaite Millett, Vered Ben-David, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Greg Echele, Pam Moussette and Valerie Atkins

The impacts of intergovernmental grants on municipal infrastructure: Evidence from the Canada-Quebec infrastructure works 2000 program pp. 184-193

Kaddour Mehiriz

Synthesis of articles in Evaluation and Program Planning: 2010–2016 pp. 194-198

Randall Schumacker and Cheng Hua

A formative multi-method approach to evaluating training pp. 199-207

Holly Hayes, Victoria Scott, Michelle Abraczinskas, Jonathan Scaccia, Soma Stout and Abraham Wandersman

Barriers and facilitators to evaluation of health policies and programs: Policymaker and researcher perspectives pp. 208-215

Carmen Huckel Schneider, Andrew J. Milat and Gabriel Moore