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Everything about Program evaluation
Collecting, analyzing, and using information to assess projects
Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Program evaluationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: CDC Program Evaluation Framework, 2024Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Program evaluationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Executive Summary of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III)Cited 23,556 times
- Go sideways: CIPP evaluation modelA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Policy analysisA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
- Conducting an evaluation
- Determining causation
- Reliability, validity and sensitivity
- Steps to program evaluation framework
- Evaluating collective impact
- Planning a program evaluation
- Methodological constraints and challenges
- Utilization results
- Internal versus external program evaluators
- Three paradigms
- Empowerment evaluation
- Transformative paradigm
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Executive Summary of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III)
Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) Final Report
Language Program Evaluation
Rehabilitation Program Evaluation
Health Program Evaluation
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🆕 Influential since 2022
CDC Program Evaluation Framework, 2024
Safer opioid supply: qualitative program evaluation
The impact of community nursing program on healthcare utilization: A program evaluation
A Statewide Nurse Residency Program Evaluation
Older Veterans’ Experiences of a Multicomponent Telehealth Program: Qualitative Program Evaluation Study
📚 Books worth reading
Program evaluationEmil J. Posavac, Raymond G. Carey · 1980
The Gourman reportJack Gourman · 1967
Evaluating Research in Academic JournalsFred Pyrczak · 1999
Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion ProgramsJames F. McKenzie, Brad L. Neiger · 1992
Everyday evaluation on the runYoland Wadsworth · 1995
EvaluationRossi, Peter Henry, Lipsey, Mark W. · 1979
Evaluation rootsMarvin C. Alkin · 2004
Evaluation practiceElizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson · 2002
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