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Fixsen, Dean; Blase, Karen; Metz, Allison; van Dyke, Melissa – Exceptional Children, 2013
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily…
Descriptors: Evidence, State Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Benjamin, Lehn M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
Why do we continue to see evidence that nonprofit staff feel like outcome measurement is missing important aspects of their work? Based on an analysis of over 1,000 pages of material in 10 outcome measurement guides and a focused literature review of frontline work in three types of nonprofit organizations, this article shows that existing outcome…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Nonprofit Organizations, Human Services, Community Development
Olsen, Sue; Fiechtl, Barbara; Rule, Sarah – Volta Review, 2012
The provision of consistent high quality home- and community-based services to children with disabilities living in rural and frontier areas is a challenge. Distance, weather, geographic terrain (mountains, canyons), and shortages of pediatric early interventionists are among the challenges to ensuring appropriate and equitable services.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Videoconferencing, Delivery Systems
Marson, Stephen M.; Wei, Guo; Wasserman, Deborah – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
Goal attainment scaling (GAS) has been considered to be one of the most versatile and appealing evaluation protocols available for human services. Aspects of the protocol that make the method so appealing to practitioners--that is, collaboratively working with individual clients to identify and assign weights to goals they will work to…
Descriptors: Human Services, Scaling, Test Reliability, Interrater Reliability
Vlaskamp, Carla; van der Putten, Annette – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
In supporting individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), professionals have expressed the need for a person-centered planning method especially targeted for the highly complex and specialized support needs of these clients. The current study has evaluated the effectiveness of an Individual Support Program especially…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Client Characteristics, Multiple Disabilities, Interaction
Adcock, Amy B.; Duggan, Molly H.; Watson, Ginger S.; Belfore, Lee A. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This paper describes an assessment of a web-based interview simulation designed to teach empathetic helping skills. The system includes an animated character acting as a client and responses designed to recreate a simulated role-play, a common assessment method used for teaching these skills. The purpose of this study was to determine whether…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Internet, Web Based Instruction
Masdonati, Jonas; Massoudi, Koorosh; Rossier, Jerome – Journal of Career Development, 2009
This study analyzes the role of the working alliance on the life satisfaction and career decision difficulties of clients participating in career counseling in Switzerland. The study also compares these career counseling clients to a group of students who did not seek counseling, to explore the overall effectiveness of a face-to-face career…
Descriptors: Intervention, Life Satisfaction, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Johanson, Joyce; Bell, Carol; Daytner, Katrina – Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood Education, 2008
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), LitTECH Outreach was a 3-year technology-based preschool literacy project conducted by staff at the Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood, a research and development division of the College of Education and Human Services at Western Illinois…
Descriptors: Human Services, Disabilities, Computer Centers, Program Effectiveness
Courtney, Mark E.; Zinn, Andrew; Zielewski, Erica H.; Bess, Roseana J.; Malm, Karin E.; Stagner, Matthew; Pergamit, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2008
This report presents findings from a rigorous evaluation of the Life Skills Training Program (LST) in Los Angeles County. LST provides 30 hours of life skills training over five weeks to foster youths ages 16 and older. The classes are held on community college campuses throughout Los Angeles County. The program is staffed by workers tasked with…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Program Evaluation, Human Services, Research Design
Nebbitt, Von E.; House, Laura E.; Thompson, Sanna J.; Pollio, David E. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
Previous research indicates that runaway and homeless youth often achieve positive outcomes after shelter stays however few studies have examined how these outcomes are achieved. This study employs qualitative methods to explicate this phenomenon. Twenty-five providers and 21 youth from four shelters participated in this study. Youth were…
Descriptors: Human Services, Runaways, Homeless People, Youth
Malik, Neena M.; Ward, Kristin; Janczewski, Colleen – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
There is increasing awareness that domestic violence (DV) and child maltreatment often overlap and that there are significant negative consequences to women and children who are victims in the same families. The present study contains data from a participatory evaluation of a multisite national demonstration project on family violence (the…
Descriptors: Human Services, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Demonstration Programs
Amirkhanyan, Anna A.; Kim, Hyun Joon; Lambright, Kristina T. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
Are public and private organizations fundamentally different? This question has been among the most enduring inquiries in public administration. Our study explores the impact of organizational ownership on two complementary aspects of performance: service quality and access to services for impoverished clients. Derived from public management…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Health Facilities, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Climate
Tout, Kathryn; Zaslow, Martha; Halle, Tamara; Forry, Nicole – Child Trends, 2009
Since the first child care Quality Rating System (QRS) was implemented in Oklahoma 11 years ago (in 1998), 16 additional statewide systems have been launched and numerous states are piloting or developing a QRS (Zaslow, Tout, & Martinez-Beck, forthcoming). As QRS stakeholders across the nation look ahead to the next decade, it is important to take…
Descriptors: Human Services, Cooperation, National Organizations, Public Agencies
Whitebook, Marcy; Ryan, Sharon; Kipnis, Fran; Sakai, Laura – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2008
In a series of New Jersey Supreme Court decisions known as Abbott v. Burke, the 28 (now 31) urban school districts serving the state's poorest students were ordered to create systems of high-quality preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, beginning in the 1999-2000 school year. The Abbott Preschool Program now serves approximately…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children

Farley, Roy C.; And Others – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1992
Experimentally evaluated impact on clients' vocational development of two structured programs designed to involve clients in process of translating assessment data into implications for vocational preparation and occupational choice. Findings from 75 vocational rehabilitation clients revealed that participation in Occupational Choice Strategy and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Program Effectiveness, Rehabilitation Counseling