Praised by instructors and students alike, PROGRAM EVALUATION: AN INTRODUCTION helps your students evaluate services and programs that they will encounter in their professional practice. In the process of learning evaluation techniques and skills, students will become proficient at critically analyzing evaluation studies conducted by others. The authors present and simplify all the essentials needed for a critical appreciation of evaluation issues and methodology. The text's student-friendly writing style and clear presentation of concepts, as well as its hands-on and applied focus, will guide students on how to gather evidence and demonstrate that their interventions and programs are effective in improving clients' lives.
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"PROGRAM EVALUATION is a book that delivers on its title. If you want to know how to conduct a program evaluation, this book gives you all the basic tools that you need to know. Royse et al. have continued a formula that has worked in its previous editions Â- using plain language to explain how to conduct evaluations and providing plenty of up-to-date examples that students can relate to."
"All things considered, this is a really fine text. Â… it strikes an incredibly good balance with the amount of detail and information it provides students Â- enough to understand the concepts and apply the skills, but not so much as to overwhelm them. It is easy to read and will be easy to teach from."
"All things considered, this is a really fine text. Â… it strikes an incredibly good balance with the amount of detail and information it provides students Â- enough to understand the concepts and apply the skills, but not so much as to overwhelm them. It is easy to read and will be easy to teach from."
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David Royse is a professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1980. He has written several books, including two for Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning: RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL WORK, Sixth Edition, and PROGRAM EVALUATION: AN INTRODUCTION, Fifth Edition.
Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, is Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1982. Recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Faculty Scholar Award, Dr. Thyer has published extensively on social work practice, research, and evaluation.
Deborah K. Padgett, Ph.D., MPH, is a professor at the New York University School of Social Work. She received her doctorate in urban anthropology in 1979 and completed post-doctoral programs in mental health services research at Columbia University School of Public Health (1985-86) and Duke University Department of Psychiatry (1994-95). Dr. Padgett's research interests include breast cancer screening and follow-up care for medically underserved women and qualitative studies of the 'process' of care for psychiatrically disabled homeless adults.
Dr. Logan has a Ph.D. in applied psychology and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky with appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Dr. Logan has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to examine HIV risk behavior, victimization, and drug use among crack users and by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to study alcohol, violence, mental health and health status and utilization among rural and urban women with protective orders.
Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, is Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1982. Recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Faculty Scholar Award, Dr. Thyer has published extensively on social work practice, research, and evaluation.
Deborah K. Padgett, Ph.D., MPH, is a professor at the New York University School of Social Work. She received her doctorate in urban anthropology in 1979 and completed post-doctoral programs in mental health services research at Columbia University School of Public Health (1985-86) and Duke University Department of Psychiatry (1994-95). Dr. Padgett's research interests include breast cancer screening and follow-up care for medically underserved women and qualitative studies of the 'process' of care for psychiatrically disabled homeless adults.
Dr. Logan has a Ph.D. in applied psychology and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky with appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Dr. Logan has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to examine HIV risk behavior, victimization, and drug use among crack users and by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to study alcohol, violence, mental health and health status and utilization among rural and urban women with protective orders.
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decent evaluative text book,
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This is a pretty good social work evaluation book. It's not too big, so as not to overwhelm folks, I guess. As a person that's interesting in pursuing evaluation/research work in the future, this book laid a good foundation. It provides definitions, uses, and detailed examples of each type of evaluation. Even more so, each type of evaluation is listed in terms of level of difficulty and level of effectiveness (co-effective evaluation being the most difficult but produces some of the best results, for example). This book is also good for students that don't know anything about evaluation, are easily confused, or just down right detest something at could involve this type of critical thinking. You'll be fine.
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Complete ripoff!,
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This book is a small paperback that would typically retail for about $30 compared to most textbooks this size that I have had in the past (I am a graduate student, so I've been through a lot of books). At over $100 this book is the biggest ripoff I have ever purchased in my college career.
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