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Organizing Evaluation to Serve the Needs of Program Planners and Managers.
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Bunker, Douglas R. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
Evaluation is often both conceptually and functionally separate from program planning and operations management. There are a number of potentially beneficial side effects to be realized from close collaboration between program administrators and evaluators: when the evaluation task is broadly defined and when both administrators recognize their…
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Organizational Communication
Opportunities for Program Evaluators To Facilitate Performance-based Management.
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Scheirer, M. A.; Newcomer, K. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2001
Draws on interviews with 61 officials in 13 federal agencies to illustrate a framework showing many of the potential uses of evaluation in support of performance management. Suggests 10 actions as opportunities for agency administrators and evaluators to bridge the current gaps between potential and actual uses of evaluation. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Planning and Implementation of Capitated Mental Health Programs in the Public Sector.
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Masland, Mary C.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1996
An overview of the theoretical concepts of capitation, a method of paying a provider a fixed price per person served, is presented in conjunction with practical lessons from the literature documenting capitation efforts in public mental health. An analytic framework identifies five major planning concerns in capitation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Mental Health Programs, Models
Minimizing Attrition in Longitudinal Studies of Special Populations: An Integrated Management Approach.
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Coen, Anita Saranga; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1996
The Colorado Treatment Outcome Study, a longitudinal study of people with mental illness, developed an integrated management approach that resulted in average recontact rates of 95% in each followup year. The approach includes multiple facets with an emphasis on partnership of all participants and agencies and respect for the individual. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Attrition (Research Studies), Confidentiality, Information Management
Stakeholder Conflict: A Case Study.
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Abma, T. A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2000
Shows how evaluators can handle conflict and create, restore, and maintain conditions for an ongoing negotiation process using the example of a vocational rehabilitation project for psychiatric patients in which a conflict developed between management and therapists. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Case Studies, Conflict, Evaluation Methods
Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in a Multiple Use, Multiple User Mental Health Information System.
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Bank, Rheta; Laska, Eugene M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978
These aspects of maintaining the security of computer-processed information concerning mental health patients are discussed: legal protection, technological safeguards, and managerial responsibility. (CTM)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Computer Storage Devices, Confidential Records
Evaluation Traditions in Australia: Distillation of the Old, Wellspring of the New.
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McTaggart, Robin; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Evaluation theory and practice in Australia are described. In Australia, evaluation is linked closely with government programs. Australia has benefited from the opportunity to observe evaluation in the rest of the world. However, development of a uniquely Australian perspective has been hampered by the imposition of cultural values of other…
Descriptors: Administration, Cultural Influences, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Improving the Effectiveness of Evaluations: Making the Link to Organizational Theory.
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Rogers, Patricia J.; Hough, Gary – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1995
Explores implications for evaluation practice of using five different perspectives on organizations, drawing on the four models of social program implementation developed by R. F. Elmore (1978). It is argued that evaluation will only really be effective when its focus, methods, and management reflect realistic assumptions about how organizations…
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Quality of Life, Quality Enhancement, and Quality Assurance: Implications for Program Planning and Evaluation in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
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Schalock, Robert L. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
The current conceptualization in the mental retardation-developmental disability field regarding quality of life, quality enhancement, and quality assurance is summarized. Implications of these issues for program planning and evaluation are discussed, with attention to management and a framework for quality assurance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administration, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Guides
A National AIDS Organization--An Executive Survey.
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Starley, Richard O. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
Selected executive directors of local and national Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) service organizations were asked about their need and desire for a national organization. Replies of 12 local and 8 national directors confirmed the desire for such an organization and suggested various models for its organization. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Administration, Administrators, Delivery Systems