Evaluation and Experiment. Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs

✍ Scribed by Carl A. Bennett and Arthur A. Lumsdaine (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 558
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIAL RELATIONS, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Inside Front Cover, Page iv
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xiii
Acknowledgments, Pages xv-xvi
1 - Social Program Evaluation: Definitions and Issues, Pages 1-38, CARL A. BENNETT, ARTHUR A. LUMSDAINE
2 - Assessing Social Innovations: An Empirical Base for Policy, Pages 39-193, JOHN P. GILBERT, RICHARD J. LIGHT, FREDERICK MOSTELLER
3 - Making the Case for Randomized Assignment to Treatments by Considering the Alternatives: Six Ways in Which Quasi-Experimental Evaluations In Compensatory Education Tend to Underestimate Effects, Pages 195-296, DONALD P. CAMPBELL, ROBERT F. BORUCH
4 - Regression and Selection Models to Improve Nonexperimental Comparisons, Pages 297-317, GLEN G. CAIN
5 - Field Trial Designs in Gauging the Impact of Fertility Planning Programs, Pages 319-408, ELIZABETH T. HILTON, ARTHUR A. LUMSDAINE
6 - Experiments and Evaluations: A Reexamination, Pages 409-463, WARD EDWARDS, MARCIA GUTTENTAG
7 - Feedback in Social Systems: Operational and Systemic Research on Production, Maintenance, Control, and Adaptive Functions, Pages 465-523, DANIEL KATZ
8 - Assessing Alternative Conceptions of Evaluation, Pages 525-553, ARTHUR A. LUMSDAINE, CARL A. BENNETT