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Evaluation Fundamentals: Insights Into the Outcomes, Effectiveness, and Quality of Health Programs is for students and professional evaluators who want to answer the following questions: Was this program or intervention effective? Who among the program s participants benefited most? For how long can the program's impact and outcomes be sustained? What are the reasons for the program's successes and failures? Now in its Second Edition, the book contains an added emphasis on outcomes, effectiveness, and quality of evaluations. Author Arlene Fink teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and to review the quality of evaluation research so as to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes. Among the topics the book covers is how to justify evaluation questions and set standards of effectiveness, design studies, and conduct ethical research. The book contains numerous examples of evaluation methods as well as evaluation reports. It also includes practice exercises and suggested readings in print and online.
Collecting Information: The Right Data Sources
Collecting Information: The Right Data Sources
A Reader's Guide to Chapter 5
Information Sources: What's the Problem? Choosing the Best Sources of Data
Sources of Data in Program Evaluation and Their Advantages and Limitations
- Self-administered surveys, tests of achievement, medical record reviews, observations, interviews, physical examinations, large data sets, performance tests, clinical scenarios, and the literature
Guidelines for Reviewing the Literature
Information Sources: What's the Problem?
An evaluator is asked to study the effectiveness of the At-Home Program, an intervention whose main objectives include providing high quality of health care and improving the health status and quality of life for elderly persons over 75 years of age who are still living at home. The experimental intervention consists of a comprehensive assessment of each elderly participant by an interdisciplinary team of ...
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