Patterns of Program Evaluation in Community Mental Health Centers

Ann Majch Rzak and Charles Windle
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Ann Majch Rzak: Westat, Inc.
Charles Windle: National Institute of Mental Health

Evaluation Review, 1980, vol. 4, issue 5, 677-691

Abstract: In an exploratory study of the program evaluation efforts of federally funded community mental health centers prtor to the enactment of mandatory program evaluation, survey data were submitted to factor- and cluster-analyses. Results yielded: (1) a typology of evaluation activities performed by community mental health centers (2) a meaning ful patterning of (organizational) approaches to program evaluation suggesting developmental stages of an increasing range of types of activities; and (3) the tentative conclusion that, at a low level of evaluation effort, client-change evaluations are less related to impact on program development than are evaluations using descriptive statistics about chents.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8000400509

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