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Direct linkFarrell, Maura; McDonagh, John – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: The article explores the significance of "evaluation" in the delivery of multifunctional extension advisory programmes and argues the necessity of integrating evaluation into programme planning, to ensure that programme guidelines are adhered to and extension advisory programmes generate their desired impact. The article focuses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fidelity, Evaluation Research, Agricultural Occupations
Reichardt, Charles S. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
I define a treatment effect in terms of a comparison of outcomes and provide a typology of all possible comparisons that can be used to estimate treatment effects, including comparisons that are relatively unknown in both the literature and practice. I then assess the relative merit, worth, and value of all possible comparisons based on the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Comparative Analysis
Stockard, Jean – Current Issues in Education, 2010
A large body of literature documents the central importance of fidelity of program implementation in creating an internally valid research design and considering such fidelity in judgments of research quality. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) provides web-based summary ratings of educational innovations and is the only rating group that is…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Bhattacharyya, Onil; Reeves, Scott; Zwarenstein, Merrick – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
Despite the growing knowledge base on evidence-based practices in social work and medicine, there is a large gap between what is known and what is consistently done. Implementation research is the study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine practice. In this article, we describe the rationale for implementation…
Descriptors: Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship, Intervention, Program Implementation
Collins, Mary Elizabeth – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2008
Although staff training in public child welfare agencies is thought to be a critical component of effective practice, little is known about the delivery and effectiveness of training interventions. Few evaluations are published in the literature and it is uncertain how much evaluation activity is being conducted and utilized. This study collected…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Public Agencies, Welfare Services, Job Training
Baxter, Pamela; Jack, Susan – Qualitative Report, 2008
Qualitative case study methodology provides tools for researchers to study complex phenomena within their contexts. When the approach is applied correctly, it becomes a valuable method for health science research to develop theory, evaluate programs, and develop interventions. The purpose of this paper is to guide the novice researcher in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Researchers, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
