E-raamat: Evaluation Fundamentals: Insights into Program Effectiveness, Quality, and Value

This guide focuses on the fundamentals of evaluating a program's effectiveness, quality, and value in health, nursing, medicine, psychology, criminal justice, social work, and education fields. It covers evaluation purposes, uses, methods, frameworks, and models; evaluation questions and evidence of merit; design; sampling; collecting data and reviewing the literature; evaluation measures; managing and analyzing data; and reports. This edition has new examples; an expanded definition of evaluation to reflect recent thinking about quality, safety, equity, accessibility, and value; discussion of how to design and report on evaluations that provide information on improvement and effectiveness and program quality and value; two new frameworks; guidelines for searching for and evaluating the quality of the literature in online libraries; standards for selecting the best available evidence; a guide to comparative effectiveness program evaluation and its similarities and differences from others; a new section on ethics for online evaluations and surveys; an expanded section on qualitative methods; discussion of mixed methods research; a guide to presenting results in poster form; and discussion and the rationale for using standardized reporting checklists, such as CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) and TREND (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs). Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

The book teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and to review the quality of evaluation research so as to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes.