Books written by Melvin M. Mark
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Evaluation in Action: Interviews With Expert Evaluators
An innovative approach to program evaluation that takes readers behind the scenes of real evaluations and the decisions the evaluators made.
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Social Psychology and Evaluation
This compelling work brings together leading social psychologists and evaluators to explore the intersection of these two fields and how their theory, practices, and research findings can enhance each other.
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Social Psychology and Evaluation
This compelling work brings together leading social psychologists and evaluators to explore the intersection of these two fields and how their theory, practices, and research findings can enhance each other.
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What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?
Practical program evaluation: Assessing and improving planning, implementation, and effectiveness. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Christie, C. A. (2003). What guides evaluation? A study of how evaluation practice maps onto ...
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The SAGE Handbook of Evaluation
With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this handbook is an extensive and user-friendly resource organized in four coherent sections: Role and Purpose of Evaluation ...
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Credible and Actionable Evidence: The Foundation for Rigorous and Influential Evaluations
This is a valuable resource for students and others interested in how to best study and evaluate programs, policies, organizations, and other initiatives designed to improve aspects of the human condition and societal well-being.
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Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
"This is one of the most coherent and comprehensive theories ofevaluation yet formulated and one that makes a most valuablecontribution. The authors are pioneering in important newdirections." --Ernest R. House,...
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What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?
What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?
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Advancing Validity in Outcome Evaluation: Theory and Practice: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 130
... Evidence as “proof” and evidence as “inkling.” In S. I. Donaldson, C. A. Christie, & M. M. Mark (Eds.), What counts as credible evidence in applied research and evaluation practice? Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Greenwood, E. (1945) ...
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Advancing Validity in Outcome Evaluation: Theory and Practice: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 130
Exploring the influence and application of Campbellian validity typology in the theory and practice of outcome evaluation, this volume addresses the strengths and weaknesses of this often controversial evaluation method and presents new ...
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Credible and Actionable Evidence: The Foundation for Rigorous and Influential Evaluations
This is a valuable resource for students and others interested in how to best study and evaluate programs, policies, organizations, and other initiatives designed to improve aspects of the human condition and societal well-being.
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Credible and Actionable Evidence: The Foundation for Rigorous and Influential Evaluations
... compelling evidence but because any evidence may be credible, truthful, and useful. As suggested in the introduction, the credibility of evidence ought not to be established solely or even primarily by the methods by which it is ...