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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
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Programs, Policies and Evaluation Tailoring Evaluations Identifying Issues and Formulating Questions Assessing the Need for a Program Expressing and Assessing Program Theory Monitoring Program Process and Performance Strategies for Impact Assessment Randomized Designs for Impact assessment Quasi-Experimental Impact Assessments Assessment of Full-Coverage Programs Measuring Efficiency.Abstract:
Programs, Policies and Evaluation Tailoring Evaluations Identifying Issues and Formulating Questions Assessing the Need for a Program Expressing and Assessing Program Theory Monitoring Program Process and Performance Strategies for Impact Assessment Randomized Designs for Impact Assessment Quasi-Experimental Impact Assessments Assessment of Full-Coverage Programs Measuring Efficiency The Social Context of Evaluationread more
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Praxis of Performance Measurement in Public-Private Partnerships: Moving beyond the Iron Triangle
TL;DR: In this paper, an interpretivist approach that utilized semistructured interviews was undertaken in the State of Western Australia to determine the nature of performance measurement in Australian public-private partnerships (PPPs), and it was revealed that there was a proclivity for performance measurements during design and construction to focus on traditional ex ante and ex post evaluations that were aligned to the conventional iron triangle: time, cost, and quality.
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Perspectives of adolescents and their parents regarding service needs following a mild traumatic brain injury
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the specific service needs of adolescents (12-18 years) after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and found that adolescents and their parents expressed the need to receive information about the injury, its expected recovery and when to return to activities.
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Evidence-based programs in children's services: A critical appraisal
Nick Axford,Louise Morpeth +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the main critiques of evidence-based programs in children's services, focusing on scientific, ideological, cultural, organizational and professional arguments, and conclude that some of the resistance stems from misconceptions or an oversimplification of issues, while others represent valid concerns that need to be addressed by proponents.
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How does industry respond to waste policy instruments—Finnish experiences
Petrus Kautto,Matti Melanen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of waste policy instruments on 14 mainly large Finnish industrial companies in the 1990s were evaluated and the management response to waste policy appeared to be small and most of the interviewees felt that the primary pressure to upgrade environmental performance came from their customers.
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Establishing the experimenting society: the historical origin of social experimentation according to the randomized controlled design.
TL;DR: The author demonstrates that the randomized controlled experiment and its quasi-experimental derivatives epitomize the values of efficiency and impersonality characteristic of the liberal variation of the 20th-century welfare state.