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Online resources
As this site is an archive and no longer kept up to date, we suggest you do a web
search on the title of the organisation shown to find their current website if the
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Evaluation of health services & health policy
- Health Services Research and Evaluation Group (HSREG) -
An interdisciplinary research group within the Department of Management, University
of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ). Aims to undertake research into the effectiveness
and efficiency of health services in New Zealand.
- Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit, University of Auckland - Site includes an online evaluation manual - Programme
Evaluation: An Introductory Guide for Health Promotion (1998). Although focussing
on evaluations ofhealth promotion programmes, much of the information also applies
to evaluations of health services.
- NZ Ministry of Health's library catalogue Search
for "evaluation" - Contains list of reports etc. held by the library on previous
health services evaluations and health services evaluation research methods.
- Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation - An independent research centre within
the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney.
- Program for Public Sector Evaluation - A Melbourne interdisciplinary
group that specialises in public sector evaluation, particularly programme evaluation.
Web site includes list of publications covering programme evaluation.
- Center for Health Policy Research - Part of the Institute for Policy
Research and Evaluation (IPRE) at the University Park Campus of Pennsylvania State
University (Penn State).
- Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy - Established in June 2000 following a merger
with the Alpha Center and the Association for Health Services Research. Aims to
provide "a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers and
policy professionals".
- MEASURE Evaluation
- An organisation which collects data, monitors and evaluates population, health
and nutrition services worldwide. It is one of five projects funded by the US Agency
for International Development to examine programmes which aim to improve human health
and well-being. In particular those related to family planning, maternal health,
sexually transmitted diseases, nutrition and infectious diseases in developing countries.
- Andover Economic Evaluation
- Based in Boston/Cambridge area, USA. Aims to help health care organisations develop
cost-effective programmes and document their value.
- Moore Chamberlin & Associates - An independent consulting firm
based in Saskatchewan, Canada. Includes expertise in strategic planning and evaluation.
- Professional Data Analysts Inc. Based in Minneapolis, USA - Includes an evaluation
division that conducts evaluations for non-profit and government funded agencies,
including health organisations.
- Centre for Health Economics (CHE) - A specialist health economics research
unit within the University of York, UK. Principal areas of activity include economic
evaluation of health technologies and outcome measurement.
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Professional interest groups
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Course notes, online textbooks & other evaluation resources
- Community Toolbox, University of Kansas
- Extensive resources for evaluating community Programs and initiatives.
- Web-based textbook
- Includes extracts from "Research Methods Knowledge Base" covering material on
evaluation and other social science methods. Written by William Trochim, Cornell
University.
- Bureau of Justice Assistance Evaluation (USA)- Contains resource material
about evaluation in general, and in relation to criminal justice system.
- Claremont Graduate University
- Includes resource material and an online course about evaluation issues for students
and evaluators (instructor is Michael Scriven).
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Biblographies, literature and lists of links
- List of free Internet resources concerning methods in evaluation and social research
compiled by Gene Shackman.
- Bibliography of evaluation resources compiled by National Network for Family Resiliency.
- Sage Publications homepage. Contains searchable list of their publications. Search
for "health" and "evaluation".
- A useful
list of links to electronic resources for evaluators compiled by Catherine
Elwell, Ohio State University.
- Online report "Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health" reprinted from
Morbidity and Mortality Recommendations and Reports Vol. 48, No. 11, September 17, 1999.
- Site containing an introduction to the Program Evaluation Tool Kit developed by
the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa. The kit aims to support information
and decision-making needs of staff running public health programmes.
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE). An online journal published
by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and the Department of Measurement,
Statistics and Evaluation at the University of Maryland (USA).
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Literature
General literature
- Guba, E. G. & Lincoln, Y. S. (1989). Fourth generation evaluation. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage.
- Patton, M. Q. (1987). How to use qualitative methods in evaluation. Beverly Hills:
Sage.
- Patton, M. Q. (1990). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (2nd ed.). Newbury
Park, CA: Sage. (Excellent, readable overview of qualitative evaluation)
- Patton, M. Q. (1994). Developmental evaluation. Evaluation Practice, 15, 311-319.
- Patton, M. Q. (1997). Utilization-focused evaluation: The new century text (3rd
ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
- Posavac, E. J. & Carey, R. G. (1992). Program evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
(4th ed). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall (Good overview of primarily quantitative
approaches to evaluation)
- Rossi, P.H., & Freeman, H. E. (1989). Evaluation: A systematic approach (4th
ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Primarily quantitative approaches to evaluation)
- Stufflebeam, D L. & Shinkfield, A. J. (1985). Systematic evaluation. Boston:
Kluwer-Nljhoff.
- Thomas, D. R. & Robertson, N. R. (1992). Evaluation of human services: Conceptualization
and planning. In D. R. Thomas & A. Veno (Eds.), Psychology and social change:
Creating an international agenda.Palmerston North: Dunmore.
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Journals
Major Journals
Other Journals
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Relationship between evaluator and people being evaluated
- Establishing effective working relationships with people in programs being evaluated
- Appropriate roles for evaluators
- Guba, E. G. & Lincoln, Y. S. (1989). Fourth generation evaluation. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage. Pp. 195-218
- Morrell, J. A. (1979). Program evaluation in social research. NY: Pergamon. 123-142
- Patton, M. Q. (1990). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (2nd ed.). Newbury
Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 206-215
- Robson, C. (1993). Real world research: A resource guide for practitioners-researchers.
Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 450-459
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Empowerment evaluation
- Fetterman, D. M. (1994). Empowerment Evaluation. Evaluation Practice, 15, 1-15.
- Fetterman, D.M., Kaftarian, S.J., & Wandersman, A. (1996). Empowerment Evaluation:
Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment and accountability. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Wallerstein, N. & Martinez, L. (1994). Empowerment Evaluation: A Case Study
of an Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Program in New Mexico. Evaluation Practice,
15, 131-138.
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Commenteries on empowerment evaluation
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Lackey, J.F., Moberg, D.P. & Balistrieri, M. (1997). By whose standards? Reflections
on empowerment evaluation and grassroots groups. Evaluation Practice, 18, 137-146.
Abstract: Our recent work with grassroots organizations raises several questions
about empowerment evaluation. Critics have focused on concerns such as lack of rigor
and objectivity, but few have addressed deeper philosophical issues. One of these
issues centers on evaluation standards. Empowered program stakeholders who set the
research agenda in the empowerment model may have different ideas from those of
the professional evaluator about the structure of inquiry and the use of evaluation.
In some cases, the evaluator may question the ethics underlying their choices. One
critical issues is whether overarching standards for empowerment evaluation are
needed, and if so, who defines them. A second issue focuses on whether there is
harmony between the model’s twin goals of evaluation ownership and group advocacy,
which we found to be incompatible in some situations. Many grassroots organizations
who were concerned with group advocacy (e.g. receiving recognition, attracting funding)
found it pragmatic to surrender evaluation ownership to the institutionally-based,
professional evaluators, particularly when they anticipated favorable evaluation
findings.
- Patton, M.Q., (1997). Toward distinguishing empowerment evaluation and placing it
in a larger context. Evaluation Practice, 18, 147-163.
Abstract: Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation
and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda. However, empowerment
evaluation overlaps participatory, collaborative, stakeholder-involving, and utilization-focused
approaches to evaluation in its concern for such issues as ownership, relevance,
understandability, access, involvement, improvement, and capacity-building. A critical
question becomes how to distinguish empowerment evaluation from these other approaches.
Making such distinctions has become critical as the field debates the boundaries
and implications of empowerment evaluation.
- Scriven, M., (1997). Empowerment evaluation examined. Evaluation practice, 18, 165-175.
Abstract: It is suggested that there are some serious problems with defining the
concept of empowerment evaluation, with its underlying assumptions, and with its
proposed justification.
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Evaluation as intervention
- Greene, J.C. (1997). Evaluation as advocacy. Evaluation Practice, 18, 25-35.
Abstract: The article argues that advocacy in evaluation is inevitable. This occurs
when advocacy is understood not as program partisanship or contaminating bias, but
rather as a value commitment to a particular regulative ideal (of rational decision
making, interpretive meaning, community activism). The regulative ideal for evaluation
advanced in this discussion is a commitment to democratic pluralism. These ideas
are illustrated and substantiated with three case examples.
- Hendricks, M. (1993). The evaluator as "personal coach." Evaluation Practice, 14,
49-55.
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Ethnicity and ethnic minorities
- English, B. (1997). Conducting ethical evaluations with disadvantaged and minority
target groups. Evaluation Practice, 18, 49-54.
Abstract: What can be done to address the ethical dilemma that arises when participation
by ethnic minority groups in an evaluation may put them in jeopardy? The present
paper examines the issues involved in addressing this question. It is argued that
involvement by these target groups in all phases of an evaluation as ‘co-operative
partners’, and not just at the stage of collecting data as ‘bystanders’, is one
way of addressing the dilemma that emerges when evaluators cannot guarantee that
participation will not be threatening.
- Stockdill, S.H., Duhon-Sells, R.M., Olson, R.A., & Patton, M.Q. (1992). Voices
in the design and evaluation of a multicultural education program: A developmental
approach. New Directions for Program Evaluation, 53, 17-33.
Abstract: Voices from one multicultural evaluation convey a sense of the struggle
involved in developing an evaluation that is sensitive to and empowering of multicultural
peoples and perspectives.
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