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Download full textBarrett, Thomas; Sorensen, James – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2015
The term "outcome evaluation" has become one of the most popular terms among human service providers and those whose job it is to evaluate the impact of human service programs. In the public sector alone, there are over a hundred instruments in use to evaluate the impact of state human service programs. Most states, many providers, and…
Descriptors: Human Services, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Accountability
Direct linkBertram, Rosalyn M.; Blase, Karen A.; Fixsen, Dean L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Implementation, Human Services, Theory Practice Relationship
Streets, Barbara Faye; Wolford, Karen; Nicolas, Guerda – International Research and Review, 2015
In the human services professions, cultural immersion experiences help satisfy multicultural training standards established by national accreditation bodies. Immersion in a culturally sensitive manner is necessary as we prepare professionals to work with and serve citizens of the globe. The authors describe an international cultural immersion…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Mental Health
Edie, Dave – Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, 2011
YoungStar is a program of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) created to improve the quality of child care for Wisconsin children. YoungStar is designed to: (1) Evaluate and rate the quality of care given by child care providers; (2) Help parents choose the best child care for their kids; (3) Support providers with tools and training to…
Descriptors: Parents, Child Care, Young Children, Child Caregivers
Yates, Brian T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2012
The value of a program can be understood as referring not only to outcomes, but also to how those outcomes compare to the types and amounts of resources expended to produce the outcomes. Major potential mistakes and biases in assessing the worth of resources consumed, as well as the value of outcomes produced, are explored. Most of these occur…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems
Edie, Dave – Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, 2011
YoungStar is a program of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) created to improve the quality of child care for Wisconsin children. YoungStar is designed to: (1) Evaluate and rate the quality of care given by child care providers; (2) Help parents choose the best child care for their kids; (3) Support providers with tools and training to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Parents, Young Children, Child Caregivers
Cunningham, Jennifer Lynham – CURRENTS, 2012
New York's Cornell University spends millions of dollars and thousands of staff and volunteer hours to produce more than 1,400 events around the world each year. That's one event every six hours. Is it worth it? Do the 40,000 alumni, parents, and friends who attend feel closer to Cornell after these events? Do they disengage because Cornell didn't…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Participant Satisfaction, Feedback (Response), Institutional Advancement
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
Ashby, Cornelia M.; Jones, Yvonne D. – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
This report responds to two mandates for GAO under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). First, it is the latest report on the uses of and accountability for Recovery Act funds in selected states and localities. Second, it comments on recipients' reports of the jobs created and retained. The Recovery Act provided $2.1…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Low Income
Bozalek, V.; Carolissen, R.; Leibowitz, B.; Nicholls, L.; Rohleder, P.; Swartz, L. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Apartheid-designed higher education institutions continue to have a major influence on students and higher educators in South Africa. There is a need for innovative approaches for engaging with difference in higher education. One means of doing this could be through innovative pedagogical approaches. The Community, Self and Identity project…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Astramovich, Randall L.; Coker, J. Kelly – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2007
The accountability and reform movements in education and the human services professions have pressured counselors to demonstrate outcomes of counseling programs and services. Evaluation models developed for large-scale evaluations are generally impractical for counselors to implement. Counselors require practical models to guide them in planning…
Descriptors: Counselors, Counseling Services, Accountability, Program Evaluation
Puma, Michael; Bell, Stephen; Cook, Ronna; Heid, Camilla; Shapiro, Gary; Broene, Pam; Jenkins, Frank; Fletcher, Philip; Quinn, Liz; Friedman, Janet; Ciarico, Janet; Rohacek, Monica; Adams, Gina; Spier, Elizabeth – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
This Technical Report is designed to provide technical detail to support the analysis and findings presented in the "Head Start Impact Study Final Report" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, January 2010). Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Head Start Impact Study and its findings. Chapter 2 provides technical information on the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Groups, Kindergarten
Kirkhart, Karen E.; And Others – 1979
It is argued that the role of the evaluator is fluid and subject to unpredictable change over time. Two key principles from systems theory support the above: (1) the definition of an organization as an open system, and (2) the self-regulatory or cybernetic nature of systems. Actual experiences are drawn upon to describe that interrupted the…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluators, Human Services, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedHendricks, Michael – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
An innovative new evaluation unit in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is detailed. This unit, the Office of Service Delivery Assessment (SDA), regularly briefs the Secretary on the services delivered to clients at the local level. The process of the SDA is described and conclusions are offered. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Human Services
Peer reviewedTrochim, William M. K.; Davis, James E. – Computers in Human Services, 1985
Describes uses of computer simulations for the context of human service program evaluation. Presents simple mathematical models for most commonly used human service outcome evaluation designs (pretest-posttest randomized experiment, pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design, and regression-discontinuity design). Translates models into single…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Simulation, Human Services, Models
