Carter McNamara's Basic Guide to Program Evaluation reviews the elements of an evaluation program. This site offers a lot of practical and sound advice about the development of research design, data collection instruments, and data analysis. Click on the words "Basic Guide" in the Mining Co. home page. http://nonprofit.miningco.com/LIBRARY/WEEKLY/aa070898.htm
The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania provides a service-oriented site with a program evaluation primer, a step- by-step guide to program evaluation, and a bibliography. http://www.hcwp.org/step.htm
The American Evaluation Association's mission is to: improve evaluation practices and methods, increase evaluation use, promote evaluation as a profession, and support the contribution of evaluation to the generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action. Site includes Guiding Principles for Evaluators and the Joint Committee Reports on Evaluation Standards. http://www.eval.org/
Programs and Courses on Program Evaluation
Sample of a program evaluation course offered at San Francisco State University.
PA 784: Seminar
on Program Evaluation
Florida State University's Certificate in Program Evaluation provides information about the types of courses and background for professional program evaluators.
Organizations that Provide Evaluation Reports
The Domestic Violence Program Evaluation Project, Jane Addams College of Social Work offers a collection of research projects evaluating various domestic violence prevention efforts. http://www.uic.edu/~lwbenn/main.html
The Center for Child and Family Studies was created in 1986 by the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, to address issues related to children and families. Since that time, the Center has gained prominence for its curriculum development and training, research and program evaluation, conference planning, and social work education initiatives. This Web site contains online papers, evaluation designs, and evaluation reports. http://www.sc.edu/cosw/center/papers.html
Koch Crime Institute’s mission states a commitment to research and policy analysis. It consults and partners with communities, states, organizations, and institutions interested in preventing, reducing, and fighting crime in the most effective and economical ways possible. View the Research Division's Report, "The Standardization of Juvenile Offender Program Evaluation." (1998). http://www.kci.org/publication/white_paper/program_eval/default.htm
The government of Saskatchewan's Education
Department provides leadership in the development and operation of education
from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in the province. Their report titled, "Children
First: A Curriculum Guide for Kindergarten" provides results of an evaluation
and includes discussion of evaluation procedures. http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/kindergarten/kinder.html
MAXIMUS's business is helping government
by using available resources and advanced technology to maximize productivity
and cost effectiveness. MAXIMUS is a results-driven, information technology
oriented organization. For over 23 years, MAXIMUS has provided management consulting
and operations services to America's most forward-thinking governments. They
provide a number of evaluation
and research reports on their Web site. http://www.maxinc.com/project.html
Public Policy and Evaluation of Services to Enable and Empower Kids (PPE-SEEK), now in its eighth year, targets children who have a parent in state prisons in an attempt to break the intergenerational cycle of violence and crime. The purpose of the proposed evaluation is to establish a baseline of information on whether this unique prevention program is reaching its intended objectives.
The Arizona Rape Prevention Education Evaluation Project is responsible for evaluating rape prevention education activities and providing technical assistance to programs that are funded to provide school and community based rape prevention education and rape crisis hotline services in Arizona. Contains a detailed annotated bibliography of evaluation studies on prevention of sexual abuse. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sexasslt/arpeep/index.html
The Program Evaluation function is a special, highly-structured program of the Wyoming Legislative Service Office. This office provides complete copies of evaluation reports on various social and governmental programs. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/progeval/PROGEVR.HTM
"Findings from an Evaluation of the Parent Institute for Quality Education
Parent Involvement Program" is an example of a high quality evaluation
from RAND. NOTE: This
document is in Adobe PDF format and takes about a minute to download.
To view the report click
here. For a complete list of all RAND reports available online:
click here.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR870/MR870.pdf
Minnesota Program Evaluation Division evaluates state government programs and agencies and helps to ensure accountability for the expenditure of public funds. The site contains numerous evaluation reports. http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped.htm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a huge number of evaluation
report abstracts and the capability to search for specific program evaluation
abstracts. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/PIC/intro.htm
The Teenage Pregnancy
Prevention Initiative offers useful pages on the process and principles
of evaluation. http://www.tppi.net/tppi.html
HandsNet empowers organizations to effectively integrate online communications strategies, strengthening their programs and policies for children, families, and people in need. The HandsNet site contains some references to recent reports on programs. http://www.handsnet.org/
Wisconsin provides a complete report on the LearnFare Program and includes the data collection instruments and a large database of research conducted during 1993-96. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Learnfare/
If you have information about Web sites and online materials that is suited for this resource, please send the URL to me and I will add the site to the list.
sackmabd@buffalostate.edu
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