Showing papers in "Evaluation and Program Planning in 2003"

TL;DR: The importance of post-discharge recovery management checkups as a means to improve the long-term outcomes of people with chronic substance use disorders is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development, adaptation, and use of evaluation approaches assessing key dimensions of group partnerships, and discuss the potential, challenges, and areas for further development of evaluation tools to assess group dynamics in partnership efforts.

TL;DR: It is found that youths with combined internalizing and externalizing disorders (mixed comorbidity) had higher levels of substance-related problems and poly-drug use at entry to treatment, and poorer outcomes, e.g. relapse, particularly evident for drugs other than alcohol or marijuana.

TL;DR: Strategies to overcome three difficulties in measuring outcomes and managing for results are discussed based on the authors' work over the last 6 years with a participatory action research and evaluation project for persons with developmental disabilities.

TL;DR: It is argued in this paper that random assignment raises other, unanticipated threats to internal validity as a result of failing to consider treatment preference in research participant behavior.

TL;DR: The evaluation process, resulting program theories, and lessons learned from the evaluation a five year, $20 million statewide Work and Health Initiative are described.

TL;DR: Gender differences in the characteristics of individuals entering drug treatment and their post-treatment substance use were examined, and women are more vulnerable to relapse because of having substance-using partners.

TL;DR: A comprehensive methodology was developed for use in a series of process evaluations of seven therapeutic communities (TC's) for drug-involved offenders to underscore the need for combined evaluation methodologies in order to provide an accurate picture of actual program implementation.

TL;DR: There is insufficient follow-up on e-learning policies and that there is a general lack of strategic direction and leadership in this area, according to what key actors think are the major challenges for successful large scale implementation of ICT for learning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between longitudinal self-help (SH) attendance patterns and level of AOD use over 30 months in a large sample of adults seeking public AOD treatment.

TL;DR: The effects of the initial treatment on long-term outcomes were entirely mediated by the initial response to treatment, participation in aftercare and 12-step support groups, suggesting the importance of evaluating outcomes in the context of multiple episodes of care.

TL;DR: This article deals with the evaluation of a multimedia learning environment which has been developed and evaluated within the broader context of a research project on the learning-dependent progression of mental models in economics and adapted a particular evaluation approach which allows and requires the implementation of specific evaluation instruments.

TL;DR: An overview of all instructor contributions stored in the faculty's web system during the academic year 2000-2001 is given and it is used as data for an ongoing analysis of tasks that instructors must manage while using a web-based course management system.

TL;DR: A need for more complex drug treatment program planning efforts that also respond to issues of employment, education and social isolation is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The evaluation developmental process for different types of evaluation activities is described, a framework for building evaluation capacity is provided, the evaluation resources provided by CDC are discussed and examples of how evaluation TA and training support the overall technology transfer goals are given.

TL;DR: The conceptual framework for the Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) evaluation project is provided in this article, where the diffusion of innovations theory is used as the theoretical foundation to understand and assess the development and dissemination of TIPs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a process evaluation of a group program for parents with intellectual disabilities focusing on group learning and crisis management was conducted using a qualitative, participant observation methodology and took place over a six-month period, and the results showed that the program components had been successfully implemented and that the participants found the services offered to be of great value.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Chicago Target Cities Project (CTCPP) was used to investigate the predictors of the costs and benefits of addiction treatment, and the Chicago Project was a quasi-experimental evaluation study of individuals in various addiction treatment facilities.

TL;DR: Examination of these studies revealed factors that may have influenced the response rates beyond the proscriptions described by the TDM, which provides researchers with lessons for future mailed surveys.

TL;DR: The authors examined the course of homelessness among adult substance abusers entering treatment in the Chicago Target Cities treatment sample and determined the treatment and non-treatment factors that predict achieving and sustaining residential stability.

TL;DR: An overview of evaluation at the national level and European level is presented and some of the main research approaches in France concerning students' learning, learning instruments, and teachers' communities are discussed.

TL;DR: The diffusion of innovations theory is used as a theoretical framework to understand substance abuse treatment providers' awareness, attitudes, and practices (or uses) of treatment improvement protocols (TIPs) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The results support the need for multidimensional assessments for predicting the risk of illegal activity, theneed for reassessments following treatment, and the value of addressing other problems in reducing subsequent criminal activity.

TL;DR: Some of the challenges of technology-based training and education, the role of quality verification and evaluation, and strategies to integrate evaluation into the everyday design oftechnology-based systems for education and training are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a sex education program was evaluated in a vocational high school in Santiago, Chile, that caters to a population of low income students, and the goals of the program were to delay the occurrence of sexual activity, promote a positive attitude towards abstinence in adolescence, and facilitate communication on sexual topics with adults.