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Five Years of HHS Home Health Care Evaluations: Using Evaluation to Change National Policy
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Brandon, Paul R.; Smith, Nick L.; Grob, George F. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
In 1997, American Evaluation Association member George Grob, now retired from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and currently President of the Center for Public Program Evaluation, made a testimony on Medicare home health care fraud and abuse before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. The occasion was to announce the…
Descriptors: Human Services, Evaluators, Investigations, Program Evaluation
Empowerment Evaluation as Evaluation Ideology
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Smith, Nick L. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
As with many forms of evaluation, empowerment evaluation can be viewed as an ideology that promotes a particular set of social and professional values. Judging the quality and utility of empowerment evaluation thus requires a critical appraisal of the implications of adopting those values.
Descriptors: Ideology, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Empowerment
A Framework for Characterizing the Practice of Evaluation, with Application to Empowerment Evaluation.
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Smith, Nick L. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1999
Proposes a framework for characterizing evaluation approaches that consists of the following aspects: context, purpose and social role, phenomena of interest, procedural rules, methods of justification, and sanctions. Illustrates the framework through its application to the debate over the theory and practice of empowerment evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Empowerment, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Models