Evaluating Health and Human Service Programs in Community Settings
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 83
Published on 17. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-0-7879-4903-7 (ISBN)
Description
The key difference between community-based evaluation and other
types of evaluation lies in understanding and accommodating the
unique situations of communities, their leadership, their social
and political climates, and their perception of needs. This volume
of New Directions for Evaluation examines how to improve approaches
to evaluation in community organizations, emphasizing the need to
assess the fit between evaluators? skills and styles, and the
cultural reality of communities. The author--experienced evaluators
and community-based program leaders--describe choices about
evaluation practice that are available to the evaluator, the
program, and the community. They also present an effective
evaluation prescreening tool, which has been successfully used to
match evaluation plans with particular community program evaluation
needs, resources, and commitments.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New
Directions for Evaluation.
The key difference between community-based evaluation and other
types of evaluation lies in understanding and accommodating the
unique situations of communities, their leadership, their social
and political climates, and their perception of needs. This volume
of New Directions for Evaluation examines how to improve approaches
to evaluation in community organizations, emphasizing the need to
assess the fit between evaluators? skills and styles, and the
cultural reality of communities. The author--experienced evaluators
and community-based program leaders--describe choices about
evaluation practice that are available to the evaluator, the
program, and the community. They also present an effective
evaluation prescreening tool, which has been successfully used to
match evaluation plans with particular community program evaluation
needs, resources, and commitments.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New
Directions for Evaluation.
types of evaluation lies in understanding and accommodating the
unique situations of communities, their leadership, their social
and political climates, and their perception of needs. This volume
of New Directions for Evaluation examines how to improve approaches
to evaluation in community organizations, emphasizing the need to
assess the fit between evaluators? skills and styles, and the
cultural reality of communities. The author--experienced evaluators
and community-based program leaders--describe choices about
evaluation practice that are available to the evaluator, the
program, and the community. They also present an effective
evaluation prescreening tool, which has been successfully used to
match evaluation plans with particular community program evaluation
needs, resources, and commitments.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New
Directions for Evaluation.
The key difference between community-based evaluation and other
types of evaluation lies in understanding and accommodating the
unique situations of communities, their leadership, their social
and political climates, and their perception of needs. This volume
of New Directions for Evaluation examines how to improve approaches
to evaluation in community organizations, emphasizing the need to
assess the fit between evaluators? skills and styles, and the
cultural reality of communities. The author--experienced evaluators
and community-based program leaders--describe choices about
evaluation practice that are available to the evaluator, the
program, and the community. They also present an effective
evaluation prescreening tool, which has been successfully used to
match evaluation plans with particular community program evaluation
needs, resources, and commitments.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New
Directions for Evaluation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-4903-7 (9780787949037)
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JOSEPH TELFAIR is associate professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and director, Division of Social, Health Services and Community-Based Research within the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. LAURA C. LEVITON was professor in the Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham and is now senior program officer for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. JEANNE S. MERCHANT is project coordinator in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
JOSEPH TELFAIR is associate professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and director, Division of Social, Health Services and Community-Based Research within the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. LAURA C. LEVITON was professor in the Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham and is now senior program officer for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. JEANNE S. MERCHANT is project coordinator in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
JOSEPH TELFAIR is associate professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and director, Division of Social, Health Services and Community-Based Research within the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. LAURA C. LEVITON was professor in the Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham and is now senior program officer for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. JEANNE S. MERCHANT is project coordinator in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Content
The Community as Client: Improving the Prospects for Useful
Evaluation Findings (J. Telfair & L. Leviton).
The Importance of a Discovery Capacity in Community-Based Health
and Human Service Program Evaluation (L. Leviton & R.
Schuh).
Evaluating Community-Based Health Programs That Seek to Increase
Community Capacity (E. Parker, et al.).
Improving the Prospects for a Successful Relationship Between
Community and Evaluator (J. Telfair).
The View from Main Street and the View from 40,000 Feet: Can a
National Evaluation Understand Local Communities? (L. Saxe & E.
Tighe).
The Process of Selling a Community Evaluation to a Community:
Cumberland County's Experience (R. Crago, et al.).
Framing the Evaluation of Health and Human Service Programs in
Community Settings: Assessing Progress (A. Wandersman).
Evaluation Findings (J. Telfair & L. Leviton).
The Importance of a Discovery Capacity in Community-Based Health
and Human Service Program Evaluation (L. Leviton & R.
Schuh).
Evaluating Community-Based Health Programs That Seek to Increase
Community Capacity (E. Parker, et al.).
Improving the Prospects for a Successful Relationship Between
Community and Evaluator (J. Telfair).
The View from Main Street and the View from 40,000 Feet: Can a
National Evaluation Understand Local Communities? (L. Saxe & E.
Tighe).
The Process of Selling a Community Evaluation to a Community:
Cumberland County's Experience (R. Crago, et al.).
Framing the Evaluation of Health and Human Service Programs in
Community Settings: Assessing Progress (A. Wandersman).