The Oxford Handbook of Program Design and Implementation Evaluation

Anu Rangarajan is a Senior Fellow at Mathematica and has a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. During her 32-year career at Mathematica, she has led numerous large-scale evaluations around the world. She specializes in impact evaluations, process and performance evaluations, rapid-cycle evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and scale-up studies. Her work spans agriculture, infrastructure, education and workforce, welfare and poverty reduction, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, and climate change. She has taught program evaluation at the School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the University of Maryland.

Part 1

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Program Design and Implementation Evaluation

Part 2

Chapter 2 Data Sources and Best Practices for Data Collection

Chapter 3 The Changing World of Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation in the Age of Big Data

Chapter 4 Important Concepts Affecting Program Design, Management, and Evaluation, But That Are Frequently Ignored

Part 3

Chapter 5 Theory of Change and Logic Models: Foundation for the Evaluation of Social Programs

Chapter 6 Developmental Evaluation Designs and Methods

Chapter 7 Using Developmental Evaluation to Support Adaptive Strategies: An Application from a Social Change Initiative

Chapter 8 Using Rapid Cycle Evaluation to Improve Program Design and Delivery

Chapter 9 Behavioral Economics, Program Implementation, and Policy Design

Chapter 10 Using Rapid-Cycle Experiments to Improve Labor Programs in the United States

Chapter 11 Conducting Evaluability Assessments and Its Application in the PrePrimary Education Context in Tanzania

Part 4

Chapter 12 Performance Monitoring and Performance Management Systems

Chapter 13 Program Monitoring as a Tool to Measuring, Communicating, and Improving Program Effectiveness

Chapter 14 Process and Implementation Evaluation Methods

Chapter 15 Applying Multiple Methods to Implementation Research: Applications from Youth Education and Employment Programs

Chapter 16 Applying Implementation Science Theory in Evaluation Research: Overview and Approaches to Identifying Determinants of Implementation

Chapter 17 Evaluating Implementation Strategies

Chapter 18 Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Identify Barriers and Facilitators to Primary Care Practices' Implementation of a Diabetes Registry

Part 5

Chapter 19 Conducting Performance Evaluations

Chapter 20 Performance Evaluation of the Community Action for Reading and Security Program in Nicaragua

Chapter 21 Driving Performance in the EU Context: The Case of Regional Policy

Part 6

Chapter 22 Estimating Program Costs

Chapter 23 Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Decision-Making: Applications in the Education Sector

Chapter 24 Conducting Cost Analysis: Applications from Education Programs for Vulnerable Children and Girls

Part 7

Chapter 25 Effectively Scaling Up Promising Approaches: What Evidence is Necessary and How to Ensure it is Used to Improve Lives

Chapter 26 Scaling Innovations: What Can Stakeholders Do?

Chapter 27 Using Evidence to Scale Up India's Most Promising Education Intervention: The Case of Pratham

Part 8

Chapter 28 Systems Research Overview and Its Application to Early Childhood Education Systems

Chapter 29 Evaluating Systems: Three Approaches for Analyzing Education Systems and Informing Action