Evaluation and Program Planning

1978 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jonathan A. Morell

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Volume 4, issue 3-4, 1981

The obsolescence of evaluation research pp. 207-218

William N. Dunn, Ian I. Mitroff and Stuart Jay Deutsch

The role of data in evaluating energy conservation programs pp. 219-228

Eric Hirst

Time and the external validity of experiments pp. 229-238

Victor L. Willson

Survey based needs assessment: A paradigm for planning the decentralization of continuing health professional education pp. 239-247

George E. Fryer and Richard D. Krugman

Planning for the delivery of special services in public schools: A multidimensional needs assessment framework pp. 249-259

Charles A. Maher and Robert J. Illback

A method for evaluating and improving goal consensus for social action programs pp. 261-271

Michael Smithson

The certainty of judgments in health evaluations pp. 273-278

Nick L. Smith

Factors influencing client satisfaction with mental health services: A review of quantitative research pp. 279-286

Barry A. Tanner

An analysis of the efficacy of infant intervention programs with organically handicapped children pp. 287-323

Carl J. Dunst and Regina M. Rheingrover

Program decisions: Evaluating a bird in the hand versus two in the bush pp. 325-334

Kurt J. Snapper and David A. Seaver

An evaluation of the nutrition education and training program: Findings from Nebraska pp. 335-344

Robert G. St. Pierre, Thomas D. Cook and Roger B. Straw

The process and results of an evaluation of a nurse-managed, family-oriented health care center pp. 345-353

Pierre Woog, Barbara A. Kos and Ruth Bernstein Hyman

Positive events and quality of life pp. 355-361

Alex J. Zautra and John W. Reich

On defining at-risk status pp. 363-375

E. Webb Stacy

An evaluation model for school psychological services pp. 377-383

Barbara A. Mowder and David P. Prasse

Evaluation of diagnostic procedures,: A review of the issues pp. 385-396

Mark S. Thompson, Alan B. Cohen and Eric E. Fortess

Volume 4, issue 2, 1981

The use of metaevaluation to plan evaluations of conservation programs pp. 113-122

Jon Soderstrom, Linda Berry and Eric Hirst

Quality of life assessment and drug abuse treatment program evaluation pp. 123-130

P. H. Irwin

A remedial strategy for data analysis pp. 131-138

John A. Ross

Artifact in client satisfaction assessment: Experience in community mental health settings pp. 139-150

Maurice LeVois, Tuan D. Nguyen and C. Clifford Attkisson

Applicability of multiple matrix sampling to estimating effectiveness of educational programs pp. 151-161

David M. Shoemaker and Judith Sauls Shoemaker

Alcohol abuse on a college campus: A needs assessment pp. 163-168

Steven Walfish, Douglas Wentz, Peggy Benzing, Fran Brennan and Steven Champ

Accountability to whom? pp. 169-172

Barry S. Tuchfeld

Purchasing and selling evaluation: A contract negotiation process pp. 173-176

Joan E. Sieber

Classic 1960s articles in educational evaluation pp. 177-183

Nick L. Smith

The impact of density in a juvenile correctional institution: Research, recommendations, and policy implications pp. 185-193

Darrel W. Ray and Abraham Wandersman

Volume 4, issue 1, 1981

Foreword pp. 1-370

Edna Kamis-Gould and Joseph R. Piasecki

Social area analysis in program evaluation and planning pp. 3-14

Joseph R. Piasecki and Edna Kamis-Gould

Marital status and psychological well-being: An individual-environment congruence perspective pp. 15-22

Edna Kamis-Gould, Martin C. McGurrin and Joseph Mazel

Handling problems of ecological fallacy in program planning and evaluation pp. 23-28

Barry I. Milcarek and Bruce G. Link

Horizontal synthetic estimation: A strategy for estimating small area health related characteristics pp. 29-34

Charles Holzer, David J. Jackson and Dan Tweed

Behavioral epidemiology and social area analysis: The study of blackout looting pp. 35-42

Gregory L. Muhlin, Patricia Cohen, Elmer L. Struening, Louis E. Genevie, Seymour R. Kaplan and Harris B. Peck

Demographic and health-related predictors of the incidence of sudden infant death pp. 43-56

Mark C. Fulcomer, Stephen G. Pellegrini and Leo C. Lefebvre

The health demographic profile system: Current and longitudinal data base for social area analysis pp. 57-73

Beatrice M. Rosen and Harold F. Goldsmith

On correlating individual census tract social indicators with rarely occurring morbidity or mortality rates pp. 75-81

Ann B. Goodman and Shang P. Lin

Small area indicators and social change pp. 83-94

Anne S. Lee and Harold F. Goldsmith

Community dissatisfaction and depressed mood in Suburbia pp. 95-105

Harold F. Goldsmith and David J. Jackson

Volume 3, issue 4, 1980

Making methods choices pp. 219-228

Michael Quinn Patton and Michael Quinn Patton

"Paradigms lost": Some thoughts on choosing methods in evaluation research pp. 229-236

Charles S. Reichardt and Thomas D. Cook

Playing games about teenage pregnancy pp. 237-243

Susan Gustavus Philliber and Elane M. Gutterman

Community psychology for the 1980s and beyond pp. 245-250

George W. Fairweather

The feasibility and desirability of experimental methods in evaluation pp. 251-255

Nick L. Smith

Global scales: Strengths, uses and problems of global scales as an evaluation instrument pp. 257-268

Frederick L. Newman and Frederick L. Newman

Avoiding type III error in program evaluation: Results from a field experiment pp. 269-276

Douglas Dobson and Thomas J. Cook

Competency-based program evaluation: A contingency approach pp. 277-287

Marcus D. Ingle and Rudi Klauss

A survey of mental health district structure and effectiveness pp. 289-296

Frederick J. Klopper and David C. Speer

Volume 3, issue 3, 1980

Evaluating the impact of utility company billing plans on residential energy consumption pp. 159-164

Lawrence J. Becker, Vita C. Rabinowitz and Clive Seligman

Social policy evaluation: An example from drinking age legislation pp. 165-170

Audrey L. Begun

The examined life: Evaluation as a self-renewing profession pp. 171-173

Lois-Ellin Datta

Problem characteristics, decision processes and evaluation activity: A preliminary study of mental health center directors pp. 175-183

Gary B. Cox and Phillip S. Osborne

Metaphysics and professional resistance to program evaluation pp. 185-190

Richard Kilburg

Leverage and evaluation: Beating plowshares into swords pp. 191-194

William D. Neigher

Is regulatory evaluation the answer? pp. 195-196

Nancy R. Kingsbury

The use of evaluation models for decision making: Application to the community anti-crime program pp. 197-209

Kurt J. Snapper and David A. Seaver

Volume 3, issue 2, 1980

Leverage and evaluation effectiveness pp. 83-89

Francis G. Caro

Whether evaluation -- whether utilization pp. 91-94

O. Lynn Deniston

Systems engineering: A problem-solving approach to improving program performance pp. 95-103

Richard Z. Gooding

Mental health needs assessment of children and adolescents pp. 105-109

Kevin J. Gully

Putting schools as socio/economic institutions back into educational evaluation: A response to Kean and McNamara pp. 111-117

Michael W. Apple

Evaluating a private foundation's health program pp. 119-129

Linda H. Aiken, Robert J. Blendon, David E. Rogers and Howard E. Freeman

A user-focused model for the utilization of evaluation pp. 131-140

Terry Connolly and Alan L. Porter

Quality of life indicators and program evaluation pp. 141-143

Stephen B. Withey

Volume 3, issue 1, 1980

Controlling health care costs: An evaluation of strategies pp. 1-14

Ira E. Raskin, Rosanna M. Coffey and Pamela J. Farley

Network analysis in evaluation: Some words of caution pp. 15-23

Sydney Engelberg

Information resources for program evaluators pp. 25-33

Thomas E. Backer, C. Clifford Attkisson, John R. Barry, Timothy C. Brock, Howard R. Davis, Thomas J. Kiresuk, Karen E. Kirkhart, Robert Perloff and Charles Windle

Performance measurement: Some conceptual issues pp. 35-43

Terry Connolly and Stuart Jay Deutsch

Consumer evaluation of community treatment pp. 45-52

James D. Kloss, Dennis J. Sherry, Pamela Crozat and Joan Karan

Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare pp. 53-55

Marian A. Solomon

Cost-benefit analysis and other promising utensils pp. 57-58

Gerald L. Barkdoll