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Peer reviewedLevin, M. Henry – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
This paper provides a summary of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses and their potential importance for decision making. The extent to which these tools are actually used, the possible connections between meta-analysis and cost-effective analysis, and the connection between effect sizes and benefit-cost ratios are discussed. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Decision Making, Effect Size
Peer reviewedLevine, Victor – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1981
A program can be evaluated, and a cost-benefit ratio can be calculated to five decimal places, without ever directly examining outcomes. A useful vocabulary in economics and an understanding of the concepts involved is provided evaluators by an economist. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Human Services, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedBickman, Leonard, Ed.; Rog, Debra J., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1992
Seven articles focus on child and adolescent mental health services, highlighting major evaluation issues, considering the contribution of evaluation to improvement of these services, and describing efforts to overcome distinctive problems in these areas. Policymakers and providers of services are optimistic about the use of evaluation of program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedWye, Christopher G., Ed.; Sonnichsen, Richard C., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1992
Sixteen articles describe the status of program evaluation in the federal government by showing how evaluation is organized in the government. A review of evaluation in the legislative and executive branches is followed by a review of the major organizations producing evaluation work. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Change, Cost Effectiveness
