Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies - Hardcover

This book provides an overview of the techniques needed to implement and carry out useful programme evaluations. By defining evaluation broadly the authors show how a wide variety of evaluation methods can contribute to programme improvement. This fourth edition places more emphasis on various models of evaluation to assist readers in conceptualizing evaluation. It also includes more material on needs assessment.

Emil J. Posavac (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign) is Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago where he has served as Director of the Applied Social Psychology Program and Chairman of the Psychology Department. He has consulted with a number of public and private organizations. He has published sixty papers and chapters, edited or co-edited six volumes on program evaluation and applied social psychology, and written numerous reports for health care and educational institutions. He is the author of "Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies." In 1990, he was awarded the Myrdal Award by the American Evaluation Association for his contributions to the advancement of program evaluation practice.