Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis).  The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.  Duncan and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Education Policy Initiative at Carolina

"As a professor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present a realistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, these authors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to ease students′ transition to the workplace."   As aprofessor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present arealistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, theseauthors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to easestudents′ transition to the workplace.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the Authors1. What Is Program Evaluation and Why Is It Needed?2. Social Problems and Assessing the Need for a Program3. Assessing Program Theory and Design4. Assessing Program Process and Implementation5. Measuring and Monitoring Program Outcomes6. Impact Evaluation: Isolating the Effects of Social Programs in the Real World7. Impact Evaluation: Comparison Group Designs8. Impact Evaluation: Design With Strict Controls on Program Acess9. Detecting, Interpreting, and Exploring Program Effects10. Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Programs11. Planning an Evaluation12. The Social and Political Context of EvaluationGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis).  The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.  Duncan and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Education Policy Initiative at Carolina

"As a professor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present a realistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, these authors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to ease students′ transition to the workplace."   As aprofessor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present arealistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, theseauthors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to easestudents′ transition to the workplace.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the Authors1. What Is Program Evaluation and Why Is It Needed?2. Social Problems and Assessing the Need for a Program3. Assessing Program Theory and Design4. Assessing Program Process and Implementation5. Measuring and Monitoring Program Outcomes6. Impact Evaluation: Isolating the Effects of Social Programs in the Real World7. Impact Evaluation: Comparison Group Designs8. Impact Evaluation: Design With Strict Controls on Program Acess9. Detecting, Interpreting, and Exploring Program Effects10. Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Programs11. Planning an Evaluation12. The Social and Political Context of EvaluationGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis).  The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.  Duncan and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Education Policy Initiative at Carolina

"As a professor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present a realistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, these authors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to ease students′ transition to the workplace."   As aprofessor and a program evaluator, I find that these authors present arealistic, pragmatic view of program evaluation. Clearly presented, theseauthors use the same language I use with clients, which helps to easestudents′ transition to the workplace.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the Authors1. What Is Program Evaluation and Why Is It Needed?2. Social Problems and Assessing the Need for a Program3. Assessing Program Theory and Design4. Assessing Program Process and Implementation5. Measuring and Monitoring Program Outcomes6. Impact Evaluation: Isolating the Effects of Social Programs in the Real World7. Impact Evaluation: Comparison Group Designs8. Impact Evaluation: Design With Strict Controls on Program Acess9. Detecting, Interpreting, and Exploring Program Effects10. Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Programs11. Planning an Evaluation12. The Social and Political Context of EvaluationGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index