Showing papers in "Evaluation and Program Planning in 1986"

TL;DR: A general model for conceptualization methods is presented along with considerations for implementation and this model is illustrated in two planning and evaluation studies which involved a broad range of constituent groups within the organizations in the development of "concept maps" which could guide subsequent work.

TL;DR: It was concluded that the conditions which contribute to the current infrequent performance of outcome research in mental health centers makes widespread outcome research unlikely in the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 1,000 Army families faced with the crisis of family relocation to West Germany revealed the importance of stressors and strains, family and personal strengths, and community supports, which varied across stages of the family life cycle.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the direct and indirect impacts of spouse support on the retention intentions of enlisted men, officer men, and enlisted women in the U.S. Air Force.

TL;DR: Program evaluation data involving pre- and post-program administrations found significant positive change on The Dyadic Adjustment Subscales, Consensus and Cohesion, and on the Norwicki Strickland Locus of Control Scale.

TL;DR: The issues are discussed, and the viability of social indicators in mental health planning is reexamined.

TL;DR: Much of what is known today about how families cope with both the captivity period, as well as the post-repatriation or reintegration process, is derived from the CPWS effort.

TL;DR: An overview of the methods and problems in evaluating employment and training programs and process studies used to assess the ways in which programs are implemented is provided.

TL;DR: Regression analyses, using New York City zip code populations as the unit of observation were used to illustrate the role of epidemiologic risk factors in predicting rates of inpatient discharge and ambulatory care visits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the demands placed on evaluators by the Joint Committee on Educational Evaluation's standards and found that the demand to attend to the contextual and political circumstances of the evaluation presents the greatest potential for conflict with other demands and is in greatest need of development.

TL;DR: A review of the current status of CATI with special attention to microcomputer-based systems can be found in this paper, where the primary conclusion is that CATI systems can aid in the administration of telephone surveys in addition to reducing sources of survey error.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the conduct and results of an evaluability assessment (EA) of the Adult Education Program (AEP), PL 91-230, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1201-1211c).

TL;DR: The principles of social research are reasonably clear as discussed by the authors, and they are important not only as standards of practice, but also as an expression of a moral code. But how well are they actually carried out?

TL;DR: A survey of Employee Assistance Programs investigated how utilization of services was quantified, and many inconsistencies were found.

TL;DR: A package of tools for military managers to implement a program for effective human service activities in the unit was developed and evaluated as a pretest-post-test quasi-experiment with a matched control group as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This paper chronicles the history of Project SAFE, provides retrospective commentary on planning and implementation, and identifies key evaluation questions yet to be answered.

TL;DR: Standard-setting was set in an evaluation of the structure of fifteen of the nation's university hospitals who participated in the Teaching Hospital General Medicine Group Practice Program (sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

TL;DR: This paper presents an alternative model for evaluating social service agencies that avoids the deficiencies of traditional evaluation by coping explicitly with the funder-agency relationship in the evaluation process.

TL;DR: In this article, the first implementation cycle of the New Zealand Accident Compensation program was studied according to the Sabotier and Mazmanian conceptual framework for analyzing the implementation of public policy.

TL;DR: Speculation that policy and funding shifts in the nation's mental health system would negatively impact program evaluation services in community mental health centers (CMHC) is substantiated and professional issues raised to these trends as well as their implications for federal and state policy are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework of the major factors which influence public perceptions of program effectiveness is presented, including the media role in the formation of these perceptions, and other factors such as elites and program characteristics affect the way in which programs are perceived.

TL;DR: A needs assessment conducted for an Employee Health Service in a metropolitan school district indicates that "degree of stress" is the health risk variable which can best differentiate employees on the basis of health risk predictors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire is designed to allow assessment of a simple additive value function for testing respondent preferences for different types of information used in evaluating police services, and the questionnaire was distributed to 57 respondents representing five different stakeholder groups within the metropolitan Pittsburgh Criminal Justice System.

TL;DR: In this paper, the U.S. Navy Division of Recreational Services (DRS) developed and field test of a strategic needs assessment for the URS, which established systematic procedures for gathering objective, reliable information about Navy members' and families' needs for recreational services.

TL;DR: The results of the investigation suggest that post agencies have limited potential at this time for solving the problems and lowering the rate of early discharge among first term soldiers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of long-term follow-up evaluations of two youth pre-employment programs (70,001 Ltd. and Jobs for Youth) and find that participants demonstrated initial earnings gains from these programs, but that over time these initial positive effects decayed as comparisons caught up with participants.

TL;DR: An approach designed to strengthen the validity of the case study method of evaluation is outlined and five aspects of this approach are identified that accomplish this.