Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

"Fink excels in [her] introduction to research design and includes a useful discussion on threats to internal and external validity, [...] a particular strength of the work."

• PrefaceFiguresExamplesChapter 1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice PartnershipChapter 2. The Research Consumer as Detective: Investigating Program and Bibliographic Data BasesChapter 3: The Practical Research ConsumerChapter 4. The Designing Research ConsumerChapter 5. The Research Consumer Reviews the MeasuresChapter 6. The Research Consumer Evaluates Measurement Reliability and ValidityChapter 7. Getting Closer: Grading the Literature and Evaluating the Strength of the EvidenceChapter 8. The Ethical Research Consumer Assesses Needs and Evaluates Improvement Identifying Needs, Preferences and ValuesGlossaryAppendixReferences

Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

"Fink excels in [her] introduction to research design and includes a useful discussion on threats to internal and external validity, [...] a particular strength of the work."

• PrefaceFiguresExamplesChapter 1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice PartnershipChapter 2. The Research Consumer as Detective: Investigating Program and Bibliographic Data BasesChapter 3: The Practical Research ConsumerChapter 4. The Designing Research ConsumerChapter 5. The Research Consumer Reviews the MeasuresChapter 6. The Research Consumer Evaluates Measurement Reliability and ValidityChapter 7. Getting Closer: Grading the Literature and Evaluating the Strength of the EvidenceChapter 8. The Ethical Research Consumer Assesses Needs and Evaluates Improvement Identifying Needs, Preferences and ValuesGlossaryAppendixReferences

Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

"Fink excels in [her] introduction to research design and includes a useful discussion on threats to internal and external validity, [...] a particular strength of the work."

• PrefaceFiguresExamplesChapter 1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice PartnershipChapter 2. The Research Consumer as Detective: Investigating Program and Bibliographic Data BasesChapter 3: The Practical Research ConsumerChapter 4. The Designing Research ConsumerChapter 5. The Research Consumer Reviews the MeasuresChapter 6. The Research Consumer Evaluates Measurement Reliability and ValidityChapter 7. Getting Closer: Grading the Literature and Evaluating the Strength of the EvidenceChapter 8. The Ethical Research Consumer Assesses Needs and Evaluates Improvement Identifying Needs, Preferences and ValuesGlossaryAppendixReferences