Evaluation and Program Planning

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Volume 97, issue C, 2023

Exploring data use in nonprofit organizations

Duncan J. Mayer and Robert L. Fischer

Costs, benefits, and net benefit of 13 inpatient substance use treatments for 14,947 women and men

Sarah E. Hornack and Brian T. Yates

Parental decision-making on summer program enrollment: A mixed methods Covid-19 impact study

Roddrick Dugger, Layton. Reesor-Oyer, Michael W. Beets, Dawn K. Wilson and Robert Glenn Weaver

Backward mapping from outcomes: Using a realist evaluation lens to evaluate an international aid program

Denise Beutel, Donna Tangen and Suzanne Carrington

Comprehensive evaluation of majors offered by universities based on combination weighting

YiBiao Yang, Huanwu Sun, Zhen Dai, Min Wu and Simei Fu

Acceptability of a behaviour change intervention aimed at increasing the use of a reusable hot drink cup

Elizaveta Novoradovskaya, Barbara Mullan and Penelope Hasking

Back Onside protocol: A physical activity intervention to improve health outcomes in people who are unemployed or at risk of unemployment

Agata Marta Lewańczyk, Eleanor Langham-Walsh, Lisa Edwards, Peter Branney, Elizabeth R. Walters, Paul Mitchell and Eleftheria Vaportzis

Educational intervention for the control of Aedes aegypti with Wolbachia in Yucatan, Mexico

Carolina Martinez-Cruz, Luz Arenas-Monreal, Héctor Gomez-Dantes, Josue Villegas-Chim, Abigail Barrera-Fuentes Gloria, Eugenia Toledo-Romani Maria, Norma Pavia-Ruz, Azael Che-Mendoza and Pablo Manrique-Saide

No one runs alone: Combining community-based program evaluation with photo elicitation interviewing among people experiencing homelessness

Karin E. Tobin, Abigail Winiker, Marybeth Moran, Marisa Felsher and Jill Owczarzak

Lessons learned from implementing the parenting Program P in Bolivia to prevent family violence

Erin Stern, Clara Alemann, Gustavo Adolfo Flores Delgado and Alexia Escobar Vásquez

Individual interviews versus focus groups for evaluations of international development programs: Systematic testing of method performance to elicit sensitive information in a justice study in Haiti

Roseanne C. Schuster, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich, Christelle Safi, Teresa Elegido Vanrespaille, Gina Bowen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Anne McDaniel and Peggy Ochandarena

Methods in realist evaluation: A mapping review

Dimitri Renmans and Virginia Castellano Pleguezuelo

Perceptions of professionals about factors affecting the implementation of early childhood support systems: A case study evaluation from an ecological perspective

Rodrigo Quiroz-Saavedra, Jaime Alfaro and Matías E. Rodríguez-Rivas

Competency drivers to support implementation of early intensive behavioral intervention in large-scale community-based services: Perspectives of caseworkers and organization representatives

Annie Paquet, Carmen Dionne, Jacques Joly, Myriam Rousseau, Mélina Rivard and Colombe Lemire

Policy evaluations of microenterprise business support services in Latin America: A systematic review

Laura Padilla-Angulo, Jesús Miguel Lasarte-López and Pedro Caldentey Del Pozo

Responding to the times: Adapting an evaluation study during a dual pandemic

Lynnette Mawhinney, Elizabeth R. Drame, Anica G. Bowe, Dominique Duval-Diop, Faith R. Kares and Patrizia Santos

The influence of evidence-based program registry websites for dissemination of evidence-based interventions in behavioral healthcare

Stephen Magura, Miranda J. Lee-Easton, Ruqayyah N. Abu-Obaid, John Landsverk, Whitney DeCamp, Jennifer Rolls-Reutz, Kristin Moore, Regina Firpo-Triplett, Pamela R. Buckley, Ellyson R. Stout and Daniel F. Perkins

Research into microfinance and ICTs: A bibliometric analysis

Aiping Liu, Elena Urquía-Grande, Pilar López-Sánchez and Ángel Rodríguez-López

A framework for using real-time evaluative interview feedback for health promotion program and evaluation improvement: The Check It case study

Alyssa M. Lederer, Allison M. Foster, Norine Schmidt, Gérard R. Gomes, Glenis Scott, Shannon Watson and Patricia J. Kissinger

Protocol for a process evaluation of SCALA study – Intervention targeting scaling up of primary health care-based prevention and management of heavy drinking and comorbid depression in Latin America

Daša Kokole, Eva Jané-Llopis, Liesbeth Mercken, Guillermina Natera Rey, Miriam Arroyo, Augusto Pérez Gómez, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Marina Piazza, Ines Bustamante, O’Donnell, Amy, Eileen Kaner, Bernd Schulte, Hein de Vries and Peter Anderson

Effectiveness of the Netherlands’ pyramid method in the Turkish context

K.Büşra Kaynak Ekici and Z. Fulya Temel

How the EU Cohesion Policy targeted at R&D and innovation impacts the productivity, employment and exports of SMEs in Estonia

Simona Ferraro, Kadri Männasoo and Helery Tasane

Evaluating quality improvement at scale: A pilot study on routine reporting for executive board governance in a UK National Health Service organisation

Kia-Chong Chua, Claire Henderson, Barbara Grey, Michael Holland and Nick Sevdalis

Predictors of homeless service utilization and stable housing status among Veterans receiving services from a nationwide homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing program

Thomas Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Alec B. Chapman, Warren Pettey, Atim Effiong, Ying Suo, Tania Velasquez and Richard E. Nelson

The relationship between buy-in and implementation: Measuring teacher buy-in to a high school reform effort

Eric M. Grebing, Julie A. Edmunds and Nina P. Arshavsky

Building capacity to create community change (BC4): A model to support successful program planning and implementation

Roxann McNeish Taormina, Tom Massey, Connie Walker-Egea, Cathy Sowell, Khary K. Rigg, Christopher Simmons and Quynh Tran

Evaluative criteria in practice: Findings from an analysis of evaluations published in Evaluation and Program Planning

Rebecca M. Teasdale, Mikayla Strasser, Ceily Moore and Kara E. Graham

Bigs in Blue: Police officer mentoring for middle-school students—Building trust and understanding through structured programming

Karen Miner-Romanoff

Theory-based evaluation of the impact of Master’s programmes in development studies: Insights from a mixed-methods and multicultural alumni action research project

Nathalie Holvoet, Wanda Casten, Eshetu Woldeyohannes Demissie, Sara Dewachter, Marian Kaye C. Gamboa, Tewelde Gebremariam Adhanom, Abdurahman Hamza Ibrahim, Hezron Makundi, Grachel Manguni, Georgina Angela Manyuru, Nicholas Mugabi, Yahya E. Nawanda, Chau Hoai Nguyen, William Amos Pallangyo, Rose Pascual-Villar, Luz Prado Saavedra, Mariluz Torres Salgado, Nash Tysmans, Anh Ngoc Vu, Eva Wuyts and Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel

Creating a parallel process: A new methodological framework for conducting Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research (TIER) in mental health settings

Emily Adlin Bosk

Evaluation of cacao projects in Colombia: The case of the rural Productive Partnerships Project (PAAP)

Alejandro Gil, Mark Brennan, Anil Kumar Chaudhary and Siela N. Maximova

Incorporating multiple data sources to assess changes in organizational capacity in child welfare systems

Heidi Melz, Anne E. Fromknecht, Loren D. Masters, Tammy Richards and Jing Sun

Development, acceptability, and perceived effectiveness of a trauma-informed adolescent self-regulation intervention

Aaron Plant, Joann Schladale, Deborah Neffa-Creech, Noor Qaragholi, Melissa Miller and Jorge Montoya

Implementation process evaluation of an ergonomic train the trainer program: How to learn from mechanisms and the temporal structure of processes?

Émilie Desjardins, Hélène Sultan-Taïeb, France St-Hilaire, Nicole Vézina, Élise Ledoux, Rita Naji and Patricia Bélanger

A pilot evaluation of the Food as Medicine program for patients with type 2 diabetes

Duke D. Biber

Outcome harvesting as a methodology for the retrospective evaluation of small-scale community development interventions

Amy Beardmore, Matthew Jones and Joanne Seal

From a teacher and school leader perspective: What happened with smoking rules and practices during a three-year smoking preventive intervention? – Findings from the X:IT II study

S.G. Kjeld, S. Glenstrup, S. Andersen and L.S. Bast

Bridging the gap between wellbeing and evaluation: Lessons from IBEST, a French experience

Thomas Delahais, Fiona Ottaviani, Annabelle Berthaud and Hélène Clot

What data counts in policymaking and programming evaluation – Relevant data sources for triangulation according to main epistemologies and philosophies within social science

Jessi Hanson-DeFusco

Identifying gender differences in risk profiles and in opioid treatment outcomes in Los Angeles County

Hortensia Amaro, Yinfei Kong, Jeanne C. Marsh, Tenie Khachikian and Erick G. Guerrero

Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system

Knowlton Johnson, David Collins and Abraham Wandersman

Examining the competencies required by evaluation capacity builders in community-based organizations

David Buetti, Isabelle Bourgeois and Maziar Jafary

Formative evaluation of an exercise training program for persons with multiple sclerosis who are wheelchair users

Stephanie L. Silveira, Katherine Froehlich-Grobe and Robert W. Motl

Option or necessity: Role of environmental education as transformative change agent

Nitika Sharma, Arminda Paço and Deepika Upadhyay

Evaluation of New York/New York III permanent supportive housing program

Isabel Gouse, Sarah Walters, Sara Miller-Archie, Tejinder Singh and Sungwoo Lim

Evaluation of organisational culture dimensions and their change due to the pandemic

Marie Mikušová, Naděžda Klabusayová and Vojtěch Meier

Evaluation of crop research institutes under data and resource constraints: An alternative approach

Parshuram Samal, Biswajit Mondal, Nitiprasad Namdeorao Jambhulkar, Ramlakhan Verma, Anup Kumar Das and Onkar Nath Singh

Factors associated with attendance to a participatory gender training programme – A secondary analysis of data from the MAISHA study

Frances McCulloch, Tanya Abramksy, Helena Lawi, Shelley Lees, Gerry Mshana, Saidi Kapiga and Sheila Harvey

Challenges for contactless online food delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: Moderating effects of perceived government response

Hsien-Long Huang

Program logic of a mental health outreach service for socially anxious youth

M.L. Benstead, J. Stones, G. Gibson, L.J. Moody, K. Little and J.W. Toumbourou

Patient satisfaction and quality of hospital care

Angela Alibrandi, Lara Gitto, Michele Limosani and Paolo Fabrizio Mustica

Exploring the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention in university students: MindKinder adult version program (MK-A)

Alfonso Moreno-Gómez, Pablo Luna, Concepción García-Diego, Alba Rodríguez-Donaire and Javier Cejudo

The impact of employment on treatment completion rates with DWI offenders

Cailyn Florence Green

Development and evaluation of an online vocational program for veterans with legal convictions and psychiatric illness

James P. LePage, Scott T. Walters, Daisha J. Cipher and April M. Crawford

Formative evaluation of a STEAM and nutrition education summer program for low-income youth

Jacquelyn Potvin, Kelsi Chappell, Kate Balestracci, Geoffrey W. Greene, Sara Sweetman and Sarah Amin

A comprehensive bibliometric study of the balanced scorecard

Carlos Suárez-Gargallo and Patrocinio Zaragoza-Sáez

Learning from experiences of evaluators implementing theory-driven evaluations in diverse settings: Building on the contributions of John Mayne

Sanjeev Sridharan and April Nakaima

Towards an evolutionary approach to learning from assumptions: Lessons from the evaluation of Dancing with Parkinson’s

April Nakaima, Sanjeev Sridharan and Rachael Gibson

Interrogating assumptions about the relationship between service providers and recipients: Learning from a new service for survivors of In Care Abuse

Ailsa Cook, Sarah Morton and Flora Henderson

Evaluation of eHealth assistance in-hospital care for improved quality of life in patients

Oto Potluka, Lenka Švecová, Viktor Kubát, Veronika Liskova-Nedbalova, Tomáš Nečas, Lenka Lhotská and Kristýna Hejdová

Designing and evaluating complex educational research to meet federal grant requirement: A demonstration of a funded large-scale protocol

Fuhui Tong, Beverly J. Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Cindy Guerrero, Shifang Tang, Kara L. Sutton-Jones and Steven M. Ross

From projects to systems: Being explicit about assumptions in systems-level theories of change

Shyamashree Das and Kultar Singh

Back to the future: Are we trapped in our past?

Fred Carden

Doing better in theory-based evaluation, from A to Z

Melvin M. Mark

Surfacing, as well as testing, “elliptical assumptions” in a theory of change: Principled discovery

Melvin M. Mark

Simple but not simplistic: Findings from a theory-driven retrospective evaluation of a small projects program

Larry Dershem, Maya Komakhidze and Mariam Berianidze