Evaluation - International Student Edition

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis).  The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.   Duncan and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Education Policy Initiative at Carolina

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
1. What Is Program Evaluation and Why Is It Needed?
2. Social Problems and Assessing the Need for a Program
3. Assessing Program Theory and Design
4. Assessing Program Process and Implementation
5. Measuring and Monitoring Program Outcomes
6. Impact Evaluation: Isolating the Effects of Social Programs in the Real World
7. Impact Evaluation: Comparison Group Designs
8. Impact Evaluation: Design With Strict Controls on Program Acess
9. Detecting, Interpreting, and Exploring Program Effects
10. Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Programs
11. Planning an Evaluation
12. The Social and Political Context of Evaluation
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index