Agency-Based Program Evaluation - Kapp, Stephen A

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Résumé :
Agency-based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice, by Stephen A. Kapp and Gary R. Anderson, serves as a core textbook in the advanced undergraduate and graduate social work program evaluation courses. It combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies and organizations to describe the effectiveness of their services and programs. Students will gain an understanding of the political and social context and pressures in which a program is developed, implemented and evaluated.

This book offers a practice-oriented approach to evaluation. While many program evaluation methods texts often add a chapter or brief sections that describe organizational and political factors.

Features and Benefits:

combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies

an understanding of the political and social context and pressures in which a program is developed, implemented and evaluated

examples of the techniques to apply in family and children services agencies

Biographie:
Stephen?A. Kapp, MSW, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of ?Kansas School of Social Welfare. Dr. Kapp?has focused his career on agency-based program evaluation?of children and family?programs.??He has over twenty years of experience working both externally and internally?on agency evaluations. His teaching and writing efforts have focused on?evaluation with an emphasis on the use of?information?by agency staff and giving service recipients a voice?in the evaluation process. Currently, he is managing research grants that?examine the service experience of young?offenders in the Kansas Mental Health System.??

Sommaire:
Introduction: The Purpose of This Book
Ch 1. Making the Case for Program Evaluation
Ch 2. Steps in Program Evaluation
Ch 3. Ethics and Program Evaluation: Applying a Code of Ethics to Field-Based Research
Ch 4. Ethical Challenges for Evaluators in an Agency Setting: Making Good Choices
Ch 5. Agencies and Academics: The Social and Political Context of Program Evaluation
Ch 6. Cultural Competency and Program Evaluation
Ch 7. Program Definition: Using Program Logic Models to Develop a Common Vision
Ch 8. Program Description: Evaluation Designs Using Available Information
Ch 9. Evaluation Design: Options for Supporting the Use of Information
Ch 10. Evaluation Design: Group Designs and Methods
Ch 11. Evaluation Design: Qualitative Designs and Applications
Ch 12. Consumer Satisfaction
Ch 13. Dissemination: Spreading the News
About the Authors