1. Chapter 12
Evaluation Research

2. Chapter Outline Topics Appropriate To Evaluation Research
Formulating the Problem
Types of Evaluation Research Designs
The Social Context
Social Indicators Research

3. Evaluation Research
Appropriate for any study of planned or actual social intervention.
Goal is to determine whether a social intervention has produced the intended result.
Results are not always well received.

4. Types of Measurement in Evaluation Research
Outcome (response variable)
Experimental Context - aspects of the context of an experiment that might affect the experiment.
Experimental Stimulus (interventions)
Population - demographic variables as well as variables defining the population.

5. Evaluation Research Designs
Experimental designs
Quasi-experimental designs
Time-series design
Nonequivalent control groups
Multiple Time-Series designs
Qualitative evaluations

6. Ethical Issues
Social interventions being evaluated may raise ethical issues.
Evaluation research may be a mask for unethical behavior.

7. Why Results Are Ignored
Implications may not be presented in a way that nonresearchers can understand.
Results sometimes contradict deeply held beliefs.
Vested interest in a program.

8. Social Indicators Research
Provides an understanding of broader social processes.
Researchers are developing more refined indicators.
Research is being devoted to discovering the relationships among variables within whole societies.