Program Evaluation

Kenneth J. Linfield, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught the Program Evaluation class in the Psy.D. program for 15 years and was the Director of Graduate Training in the School of Professional Psychology. A former Associate Editor for the APA journal “Psychology of Religion and Spirituality”, he and Dr. Kniffley co-edited the Routledge book, “Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations: Comprehensive Case Studies in Program Evaluation”. Steven D. Kniffley Jr., PsyD MPA ABPP is the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Kniffley's area of expertise is research and clinical work with Black males and the treatment of race based stress and trauma. Dr. Kniffley has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on Black male mental health, Black males and the criminal justice system, racial trauma treatment and training, program evaluation, organizational diversity, and academic achievement.

1. Program Evaluation: An Overview. 2. Planning an Evaluation. 3. Developing and Using a Theory of the Program. 4. Developing Measures of Implementation and Outcomes. 5. Ethics in Program Evaluation. 6. The Assessment of Need. 7. Monitoring the Implementation and the Operation of Programs. 8. Qualitative Evaluation Methods. 9. Outcome Evaluations with One Group. 10. Quasi-Experimental Approaches to Outcome Evaluation. 11. Using Experiments to Evaluate Programs. 12. Analyses of Costs and Outcomes. 13. Evaluation Reports: Interpreting and Communicating Findings. 14. How to Encourage Utilization.