Evaluation and Program Planning

1978 - 2025

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Volume 82, issue C, 2020

Building capacity for community-based participatory research to address cancer disparities: Case report from a Community Networks Program Center

Louis D. Brown, Larkin L. Strong, Linda Civallero, Patricia Dolan Mullen and Shine Chang

Use of parent education to improve self-efficacy in parents of students with emotional and behavioral disorders

Shannon B. Viola, Stephanie L. Coleman, Sara Glennon and Michelle E. Pastorek

How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities

Takunda J. Chirau and Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa

Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based health innovations in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic literature review

Elizabeth Leonard, Imke de Kock and Wouter Bam

Do student social background and school context affect implementation of a school-based physical activity program?

Julie Dalgaard Guldager, Jesper von Seelen, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen and Anja Leppin

A longitudinal evaluation of government-sponsored job skills training and basic employment services among U.S. baby boomers with economic disadvantages

Sehun Oh, Diana M. DiNitto and Daniel Powers

An E-learning outreach program for public schools: Findings and lessons learned based on a pilot program in Makati City and Cabuyao City, Laguna, Philippines

Rhoderick V. Nuncio, Myla M. Arcinas, Rochelle Irene G. Lucas, Jasper Vincent Q. Alontaga, Susan Grace T. Neri and Jose Mari Carpena

Clarifying differences in viewpoints between multiple healthcare professionals during discharge planning assessments when discharging patients from a long-term care hospital to home

Kimiko Mizuma, Marie Amitani, Midori Mizuma, Suguru Kawazu, Robert A. Sloan, Rie Ibusuki, Toshiro Takezaki and Tetsuhiro Owaki

Using developmental evaluation and community-based participatory research to develop a model of supportive housing

Melissa Tremblay, Rebecca Gokiert, Bethan Kingsley, Karen Mottershead and Jacqueline Pei

Short report: Understanding the process of multilevel suicide prevention research trials

Isabel C. Zbukvic, Katherine Mok, Lauren McGillivray, Nicola A. Chen, Fiona L. Shand and Michelle H. Torok

Volume 81, issue C, 2020

Maboo wirriya, be healthy: Community-directed development of an evidence-based diabetes prevention program for young Aboriginal people in a remote Australian town

Kimberley H. Seear, David N. Atkinson, Lynette M. Henderson-Yates, Matthew P. Lelievre and Julia V. Marley

A skillset and a stance: Program planning for cultural competence and cultural humility in home visitation

Stephen Edward McMillin and Jason T. Carbone

Performance evaluation and enrollment quota allocation for higher education institutions in China

Ganggang Zhang, Jie Wu and Qingyuan Zhu

Volume 80, issue C, 2020

Evaluating Dancing With Parkinson's: Reflections from the perspective of a community organization

Rachael Gibson and Sarah Robichaud

Building evaluative culture in community services: Caring for evidence

John Mayne

Putting evaluation capacity building in context: Reflections on the Ontario Brain Institute’s Evaluation Support Program

Jean A. King

The theory of change of the evaluation support program: Enhancing the role of community organizations in providing an ecology of care for neurological disorders

Carla Arasanz and Kirk Nylen

Experiments in evaluation capacity building: Enhancing brain disorders research impact in Ontario

Kirk Nylen and Sanjeev Sridharan

Reflections on experiential learning in evaluation capacity building with a community organization, Dancing With Parkinson’s

April Nakaima and Sanjeev Sridharan

Valuing and embracing complexity: How an understanding of complex interventions needs to shape our evaluation capacities building initiatives

Sanjeev Sridharan and April Nakaima

Value for money: A utilization-focused approach to extending the foundation and contribution of economic evaluation

Christina Peterson and Gary Skolits

Investigating feasibility and fidelity of the Parenting Young Children program in Sweden

E. Mc Hugh and M. Starke

Understanding the dynamic interinfluences of implementation processes: An illustration by multiple case studies

Mélissa Goulet, Isabelle Archambault, Michel Janosz, Jean Bélanger and Sandra L. Christenson

An exploratory review of the literature evaluating nonclinical fellowship programs

Margaret Paek, Connor Radkey, Sally Honeycutt and M. Kathleen Glynn

Latent class analysis risk profiles: An effective method to predict a first re-report of maltreatment?

Hyunil Kim, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Patricia Kohl, Chien-jen Chiang, Brett Drake, Derek Brown, Tim McBride and Shenyang Guo

Exploring the unmet needs for creating an enabling environment for nurturing care to promote migrant child health in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: A theory-guided community-based participatory action research

Hyerang Kim, Soonyoung Shon and Hyunsook Shin

Parent adoption and implementation of obesity prevention practices through building children's asking skills at family child care homes

Tanis J. Walch, Richard R. Rosenkranz, Michaela A. Schenkelberg, Bronwyn S. Fees and David A. Dzewaltowski

Planning for urban life: A new approach of sustainable land use plan based on transit-oriented development

Yue Liang, Mengbing Du, Xiangxiao Wang and Xiwei Xu

Developing a strategy map for forensic accounting with fraud risk management: An integrated balanced scorecard-based decision model

Chih-Hao Yang and Kuen-Chang Lee

Evaluating innovation development among Brazilian micro and small businesses in view of management level: Insights from the local innovation agents program

Hugo Henrique Roth Cardoso, Adriana Dantas Gonçalves, Gustavo Dambiski Gomes de Carvalho and Hélio Gomes de Carvalho

Logistics reorganization and management of the ambulatory pharmacy of a local health unit in Portugal

Catarina Castro, Teresa Pereira, J.C. Sá and Gilberto Santos

Participatory analytic hierarchy process for resource allocation in agricultural development projects

Pietro De Marinis and Guido Sali

Context matters: Using mixed methods timelines to provide an accessible and integrated visual for complex program evaluation data

Anna Newton-Levinson, Megan Higdon, Jessica Sales, Laurie Gaydos and Roger Rochat

Clarifying the role of belief-motive explanations in multi-stakeholder realist evaluation

S. Evans, A. Dadich, B. Stout and D. Plath

Effective elements of care-physical activity initiatives for adults with a low socioeconomic status: A concept mapping study with health promotion experts

Lisanne S. Mulderij, Fieke Wolters, Kirsten T. Verkooijen, Maria A. Koelen, Stef Groenewoud and Annemarie Wagemakers

Does it make a difference? Evaluation of a Canadian poverty reduction initiative

Dawn Prentice, Joyce Engel and Jeff Boggs

An assessment of a municipal physical activity programme for seniors based on the EFQM model: Integrating the views of internal and external stakeholders

Patrícia Moura e Sá and Carolina Fernandes

Matching anonymous participants in longitudinal research on sensitive topics: Challenges and recommendations

Jane E. Palmer, Samantha C. Winter and Sarah McMahon

Barriers and enablers to conducting cluster randomized control trials in hospitals: A theory-informed scoping review

Arielle Weir, Simon Kitto, Jennifer Smith, Justin Presseau, Ian Colman and Simon Hatcher

Do ISO:9001 standards and EFQM model differ in their impact on the external relations and communication system at schools?

Jesús Miguel Rodríguez-Mantilla, Angélica Martínez-Zarzuelo and Francisco José Fernández-Cruz

What are the characteristics of the champion that influence the implementation of quality improvement programs?

Joseph Adrien Emmanuel Demes, Nathan Nickerson, Lambert Farand, Victor Becerril Montekio, Pilar Torres, Jean Geto Dube, Jean Gracia Coq, Marie-Pascale Pomey, François Champagne and Ernst Robert Jasmin

Volume 79, issue C, 2020

Codifying explicit and tacit practitioner knowledge in community social pediatrics organizations: Evaluation of the first step of a knowledge transfer strategy

Christian Dagenais, Didier Dupont, Frédéric N. Brière, Diego Mena, Gabrielle Yale-Soulière and Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux

Methodological strategies for evaluating youth gang prevention programs

Joshua Brisson, Igor Pekelny and Michael Ungar

Contribution analysis to analyze the effects of the health impact assessment at the local level: A case of urban revitalization

Jean Marie Buregeya, Christine Loignon and Astrid Brousselle

Improving performance evaluation based on balanced scorecard with grey relational analysis and data envelopment analysis approaches: Case study in water and wastewater companies

Fatemeh Sarraf and Shabnam Hashemi Nejad

Visionary evaluation: Approaching Aboriginal ontological equity in water management evaluation

Susan Goff

Perceptions of participants and staff of implementing a physical activity program in rural primary care

Jill R. Reed, Danae Dinkel, Matthew R. Bice, Paul Estabrooks, Bunny Pozehl and Kate Heelan

Using video vignettes in research and program evaluation for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A case study of the Leadership for Empowerment and Abuse Prevention (LEAP) project

Parthenia Dinora, Andrew Schoeneman, Molly Dellinger-Wray, Elizabeth P. Cramer, Jack Brandt and D’Aguilar, Allison

Women Underrepresentation in R&I: A Sector Program Assessment of the Contribution of Gender Equality Policies in Research and Innovation

Clemens Striebing, Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt, Rachel Palmén, Florian Holzinger and Beata Nagy

Strengthening implementation success using large-scale consensus decision-making - A new approach to creating medical practice guidelines

Kimberly Bain and Anne Steen Hansen

Interorganizational network findings from a nationwide cardiovascular disease prevention initiative

Whitney R. Garney, Megan S. Patterson, Kristen Garcia, Daenuka Muraleetharan and Kenneth McLeroy

A card game to renew urban parks: Face-to-face and online approach for the inclusive involvement of local community

M.E. Menconi, S. Tasso, M. Santinelli and D. Grohmann

Exploring linkages between organisational culture and gender equality work—An ethnography of a multinational engineering company

Ea Høg Utoft

Developing a conceptual evaluation framework for gender equality interventions in research and innovation

Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt and Ebbe Graversen

Utilizing the RE-AIM framework to determine effectiveness of a preschool intervention program on social-emotional outcomes

Ruby A. Natale, Ellen Kolomeyer, Ana Robleto, Zafreen Jaffery and Rachel Spector

Mixed-methods library evaluation integrating the patron, library, and external perspectives: The case of Namibia regional libraries

Moonjung Yim, Michelle Fellows and Chris Coward

Evaluation of technological competence and operations efficiency in the defense industry: The strategic planning of South Korea

Jun Gon Lee and Min Jae Park

Core strategies, social processes, and contextual influences of early phases of implementation and statewide scale-up of group prenatal care in South Carolina

Kristin M. Van De Griend, Deborah L. Billings, Edward A. Frongillo, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Amy H. Crockett and Sarah Covington-Kolb

Youth leadership programming in high-poverty minority students

Nina A. Murphy, May Yuan and Maurice J. Elias

How do public investments in gender equality initiatives and publication patterns interrelate? The case of Germany

Susanne Bührer and Rainer Frietsch

Integrating the gender dimension in teaching, research content & knowledge and technology transfer: Validating the EFFORTI evaluation framework through three case studies in Europe

Rachel Palmén, Lidia Arroyo, Jörg Müller, Sybille Reidl, Maria Caprile and Maximillian Unger

A scoping review of knowledge syntheses in the field of evaluation across four decades of practice

Justin Lawarée, Steve Jacob and Mathieu Ouimet

Pedagogical considerations for the teaching of evaluation

John M. LaVelle, Chris Lovato and Clayton L. Stephenson

Evaluating complex interventions in real context: Logic analysis of a case management program for frequent users of healthcare services

Catherine Hudon, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Astrid Brousselle, Mathieu Bisson and Alya Danish

Development and validation of an instrument to assess institutionalization of health promotion in faith-based organizations

Randi M. Williams, Jing Zhang, Nathaniel Woodard, Jimmie Slade, Sherie Lou Zara Santos and Cheryl L. Knott

How people with disabilities experience programs to prevent intimate partner violence across four countries

Erin Stern, Ingrid van der Heijden and Kristin Dunkle

Evaluation capacity building (ECB) interventions and the development of sustainable evaluation practice: An exploratory study

Jay Wade and Leanne Kallemeyn

What can we learn about unintended consequences from a textual analysis of monitoring reports and evaluations for U.S. foreign assistance programs?

Martin de Alteriis

What do we know about evaluator education? A review of peer-reviewed publications (1978–2018)

Jean A. King and Sandra Ayoo

Assessing competency-based evaluation course impacts: A mixed methods case study

Cheryl N. Poth, Michelle Searle, Alexandra M. Aquilina, Jenny Ge and Alexa Elder

Practice makes better? Testing a model for training program evaluators in situation awareness

Sarah Mason

The whole elephant: Defining evaluation

Amy M. Gullickson

Evaluation capacity building in the nonformal education context: Challenges and strategies

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, John Diaz, K.S.U. Jayaratne and Elsie Assan

How do public investments in gender equality initiatives and publication patterns interrelate? The case of Germany

Susanne Bührer and Rainer Frietsch

Using network analysis to conduct a system-wide program evaluation within a university

Megan S. Patterson, Tyler Prochnow, Ryan G. Richardson and Kevin P. Jackson

A few introductory notes on the special issue on the Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (EFFORTI)

Mita Marra

Expanding evaluator competency research: Exploring competencies for program evaluation using the context of non-formal education

John Diaz, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, K.S.U. Jayaratne and Elsie Assan