Inhaltsverzeichnis
Policy Evaluation and Evaluation Policy. - Evaluation as a Discipline. - Purposes of This Study. - Treatment of Methods. - Plan. - Level of Difficulty of Presentation. - I Valuation. - 1 Issues in Evaluation Policy. - 2 Evaluation and Social Research. - 3 Evaluation and Social Justice. - 4 A Framework for Valuation. - II Valuation and Observation. - 5 Technique of Value Scaling. - 6 Relationships That Determine Outcomes of Tests of Hypotheses. - 7 Squaring Research Design with Policy Requirements. - III Observation and Inference. - 8 Plausible and Implausible Hypotheses. - 9 Fluctuating Parameters. - 10 A Classification of Evaluative Inference Methods. - IV Two Case Studies in Evaluation. - 11 Technical Skew in Social Work Evaluations. - 12 A Reanalysis of Love Canal Data on Spontaneous Abortions. - References. - Name Index.
