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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Process of Evaluation | |
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| Evaluation Designs | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Performance Measurement and Benchmarking | |
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| Experimental Designs | |
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| Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design | |
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| Improving Cognitive Ability in Chronically Deprived Children | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Solomon Four-Group Design | |
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| Evaluation of Multimethod Undergraduate Management Skills Development Program | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Posttest/Only Control Group Design | |
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| Community Posthospital Follow-up Services | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Quasi-Experimental Designs | |
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| Pretest-Posttest Comparison Group Design | |
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| Conservation Program Evaluations: The Control of Self-Selection Bias | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Interrupted Time-Series Comparison Group Design | |
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| Regulatory Strategies for Workplace Injury Reduction: A Program Evaluation | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Posttest-Only Comparison Group Design | |
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| The Effects of Early Education on Children's Competence in Elementary School | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Reflexive Designs | |
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| One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design | |
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| Nutrition Behavior Change: Outcomes of an Educational Approach | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| The Simple Time-Series Design | |
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| A Little Pregnant: The Impact of Rent Control in San Francisco | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | |
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| Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| The Costs and Benefits of Title XX and Title XIX Family Planning Services in Texas | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | |
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| A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Three Staffing Models for the Delivery of Low-Risk Prenatal Care | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Other Designs | |
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| Patched Designs | |
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| Attitude Change and Mental Hospital Experience | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| Meta-Evaluation Designs | |
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| How Effective Is Drug Abuse Resistance Education? A Meta-Analysis of Project DARE Outcome Evaluations | |
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| Explanation and Critique | |
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| On Your Own | |
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| Are Training Subsidies for Firms Effective? | |
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| The Michigan Experience | |
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| Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Expanding Residential Choice | |
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| Lessons from the Gautreaux Program | |
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| Changes in Alcohol Consumption Resulting from the Elimination of Retail Wine Monopolies | |
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| Results from Five U.S. States | |
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| Dilemmas of Evaluation | |
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| Fifth-Year Report | |
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| Milwaukee Parental Choice Program | |
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| School Choice in Milwaukee: A Randomized Experiment | |
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| Two Sides of One Story | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |