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Lambie, Ian; Seymour, Fred; Popaduk, Tanya – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
A significant number of children and adolescents engage in deliberate fire setting, beyond the scope of curiosity and experimentation. Interventions developed to respond to the needs of such fire setters generally involve educational and/or psychosocial approaches. Research evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions is dominated by…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Recidivism, Intervention, Caregivers
Kuzmin, Alexey – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
This article describes Participatory Training Evaluation Method (PATEM) of measuring participants' reaction to the training. PATEM provides rich information; allows to document evaluation findings; becomes organic part of the training that helps participants process their experience individually and as a group; makes sense to participants; is an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Group Activities, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation
Corn, Jenifer O.; Byrom, Elizabeth; Knestis, Kirk; Matzen, Nita; Thrift, Beth – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Schools, districts, and state-level educational organizations are experiencing a great shift in the way they do the business of education. This shift focuses on accountability, specifically through the expectation of the effective utilization of evaluative-focused efforts to guide and support decisions about educational program implementation. In…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evaluators, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation
Sample McMeeking, Laura B.; Basile, Carole; Cobb, R. Brian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Theory-based evaluation (TBE) is an evaluation method that shows how a program will work under certain conditions and has been supported as a viable, evidence-based option in cases where randomized trials or high-quality quasi-experiments are not feasible. Despite the model's widely accepted theoretical appeal there are few examples of its…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Integrity, Evaluation Methods, Research Projects
O'Sullivan, Rita G. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Collaborative Evaluation systematically invites and engages stakeholders in program evaluation planning and implementation. Unlike "distanced" evaluation approaches, which reject stakeholder participation as evaluation team members, Collaborative Evaluation assumes that active, on-going engagement between evaluators and program staff,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Rodriguez-Campos, Liliana – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Collaborative evaluation is an approach that offers, among others, many advantages in terms of access to information, quality of information gathered, opportunities for creative problem-solving, and receptivity to findings. In the last decade, collaborative evaluation has grown in popularity along with similar participatory, empowerment, and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Access to Information, Evaluation, Problem Solving
Lenihan, Helena – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
Given that most economies are now in recession, policymakers are looking to small firms to act as engines of economic growth; this has led to a revived interest in the role of enterprise policy. The "new" enterprise policy is systemic, promoting and shaping externalities and capabilities. At its core are R&D, innovation and education. It…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Program Evaluation, Models, Logical Thinking
Lundgren, Lena; Krull, Ivy; Zerden, Lisa de Saxe; McCarty, Dennis – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
This national study of community-based addiction-treatment organizations' (CBOs) implementation of evidence-based practices explored CBO Program Directors' (n = 296) and clinical staff (n = 518) attitudes about the usefulness of science-based addiction treatment. Through multivariable regression modeling, the study identified that identical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Substance Abuse, Public Policy, Scores
Tang, Hui-Wen Vivian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The main purpose of this study is to fill a substantial knowledge gap regarding reaching a uniform group decision in English curriculum design and planning. A comprehensive content-based course criterion model extracted from existing literature and expert opinions was developed. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used to identify the relative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Roosa, Mathew; Scripa, Joseph S.; Zastowny, Thomas R.; Ford, James H., II – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
Local governments play an important role in improving substance abuse and mental health services. The structure of the local learning collaborative requires careful attention to old relationships and challenges local governmental leaders to help move participants from a competitive to collaborative environment. This study describes one county's…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Government Role
Haynes, L. F.; Korte, J. E.; Holmes, B. E.; Gooden, L.; Matheson, T.; Feaster, D. J.; Leff, J. A.; Wilson, L.; Metsch, L. R.; Schackman, B. R. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration has promoted HIV testing and counseling as an evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, adoption of HIV testing in substance abuse treatment programs has been slow. This article describes the experience of a substance abuse treatment agency where, following participation in a clinical trial,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Services, Counseling Services
Rieckmann, Traci R.; Kovas, Anne E.; Cassidy, Elaine F.; McCarty, Dennis – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
State public health authorities are critical to the successful implementation of science based addiction treatment practices by community-based providers. The literature to date, however, lacks examples of state level policy strategies that promote evidence-based practices (EBPs). This mixed-methods study documents changes in two critical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Substance Abuse, Incentives, Public Health
Tobler, Amy L.; Komro, Kelli A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
This study reports efforts to locate and survey participants in Project Northland Chicago (PNC), a longitudinal, group-randomized trial of an alcohol preventive intervention for racial/ethnic minority, urban, early-adolescents, 3-4 years following the end of the intervention. Data were collected annually among students from 6th-8th grade and then…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Adolescents, Minority Groups, Urban Youth
Tseng, Shu-Hui – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
Faculty and staff in Taiwanese technical colleges are required to perform school self-evaluations. Most members of technical colleges come from postsecondary schools and are thus unfamiliar with school self-evaluation procedures. An effective school self-evaluation involves a complete ECB, making it necessary to build faculty and staff evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Self Evaluation (Groups), Program Evaluation
Sridharan, Sanjeev; Nakaima, April – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
This paper proposes ten steps to make evaluations matter. The ten steps are a combination of the usual recommended practice such as developing program theory and implementing rigorous evaluation designs with a stronger focus on more unconventional steps including developing learning frameworks, exploring pathways of evaluation influence, and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Learning, Sustainability