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Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services, 1997
This document is comprised of the 1997 issues of a quarterly newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The first issue focuses on evaluation methodology and includes articles on the following topics: (1) mixing evaluation…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Diehl, David – 2002
This report highlights the input of leaders at a national meeting in October 2001 to discuss an evaluation framework for the family support field. The meeting marked the beginning of the Evidence Along the Way National Family Support Evaluation Project, an initiative to develop a comprehensive framework for evaluating how well the family support…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Problems
Peer reviewedDraper, Lucy – Children & Society, 2001
Describes as example a parents' center in London to examine impact of evaluation exercises on people and services being evaluated. Questions whether evaluators are measuring the right things, whether evidence is valid, and what effects an evaluation may have on services. Identifies features of research and evaluation that are most likely to…
Descriptors: Children, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Family Programs
Direct linkBoot, Ann; MacDonald, Gordon – Child Care in Practice, 2006
This article draws on results of an evaluation of Sure Start activities in an area of South Wales in 2004, focusing in particular on measurements of improvements to child development and measurements of benefits to parents. The article reports on the methods that were used to collect relevant data and examines the problems associated with linking…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parenting Skills
Tisne, Suzanne – 1985
The general decline in public resources has encouraged government agencies to consolidate job functions, and the internal program evaluator is becoming a scarce commodity. This paper briefly describes a case study about the circumstances and implications of merging two formally antagonistic job roles: program administrator and program evaluator.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Community Programs, Delinquency
Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services, 1998
This document is comprised of the 1998 issues (issues 3 and 4 are combined) of a quarterly newsletter produced by the Harvard Family Research Project to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. Regular columns include: "From the Director's Desk,""Theory and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Problems
Download full textKaroly, Lynn A.; Kilburn, M. Rebecca; Bigelow, James H.; Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Cannon, Jill S. – 2001
Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) is a knowledge development initiative designed to: (1) create and test a new model for providing mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment for young children (birth to 7 years) and their families; and (2) inform practitioners and policymakers of successful interventions and promising practices…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Early Childhood Education
Goodyear, Leslie, Ed.; Bohan-Baker, Marielle, Ed. – The Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child & Family Services, 2001
This document is comprised of the two 2001 issues of a newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The first issue focuses on strategic communications and efforts of nonprofit agencies to evaluate strategic communication…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Evaluation Methods
Lopez, M. Elena, Ed. – The Evaluation Exchange, 2002., 2002
This document is comprised of the three 2002 issues of a newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The Spring issue focuses on family support evaluations and their role in advancing the field of family support and includes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Community Programs
