The emphasis on demonstrable program results in international development work has produced countless evaluation … guidelines and numerous scholars have championed specific, ethical-based evaluation approaches to guide international … nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). Yet few studies have examined the ethical implications of current evaluation practices among …

This article provides a descriptive review of four goal-free program evaluations (GFE). GFE is an evaluation model …) elements of the programs that were evaluated and their existing evaluation contexts (e.g., pre-evaluation conditions, size of … evaluation budget), (2) design of the GFEs (e.g., screening method, data collection methods), and (3) expertise of the goal …

rigorous evaluation of public sector programmes is now a baseline expectation. For evaluations of large and complex multi … evaluation of a national, inter-jurisdictional, cross-sector, aged care health initiative and its encounters with Australian …

study represents a utilization-focused evaluation of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, a female-only physical activity-based life … skills community program. A utilization-focused evaluation is particularly important when the evaluation is to help … from the first year evaluation were perceived as impacting the program. From interviews with youth participants and program …

disparities through Regional Asthma Management and Prevention's (RAMP) programmatic efforts and an evaluation of these activities …. The paper describes RAMP's targets and strategies, as well as the specific evaluation methods applied to each, including … activity tracking, observations, surveys, key informant interviews, and case studies. Preliminary evaluation findings are …

This paper focuses on an evaluation of public transportation-based employment transportation (ET) services to transport …

The article begins by giving an overview of spatial thinking concepts that are relevant to evaluation. The article … relates the spatial perspective to both a realist evaluation and a randomized control trial perspective in evaluation to … demonstrate the benefits of a spatialized program and evaluation perspective. The article mainly suggests that the adoption of a …

This final article summarizes and synthesizes the full special edition. This volume questioned evaluation as philosophy …, enterprise, and practice from the point of view of doing evaluation under conditions of social violence, disruption, and division …. In this final article, we clarify the issues and problems which challenge the professional practice of evaluation and …