Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-Based Approach

Have yet to read it. Hope this will be beneficial and a lot easier read then my last research class text.

I thought the book was really helpful with their step by step process in conducting tests on SPSS. Definitely a lot better than many other stats texts I have read.

Exactly what I was looking for!

Repetitive repetitive repetitive.

For the price, this book was not very effective or thorough. I had to buy this book for a second year graduate research class and I found it to be too simple. There was very little explanation and I did not feel as though I received a proper introduction to program evaluation from this book alone. It was useful for brief tune-ups throughout the semester but I would not recommend this book as a stand-alone tool for future graduate professors to use for classes. I believe this book would have better suited an undergraduate class.On a more positive note, it is very simple to read and incorporates a fair amount of methodological approaches to program evaluation. I rated it 3 stars because it did not live up to the hype and it was too simplistic for anyone to actually finish reading it know how to completely evaluate a program efficiently. It was also ineffective for my research proposal for the class as I used an appreciative inquiry framework for my methodology and the book did not incorporate appreciative inquiry at all, even though it has been gaining popularity within the past 20 years. Overall, not very helpful and felt like they sacrificed quality for quantity (it is a very short textbook).