Academic and entrepreneurial research : the consequences of diversity in Federal Evaluation studies / Ilene Nagel Bernstein and Howard E. Freeman

As social action programs in health, education, and welfare have expanded, interest has grown in evaluating their implementation and effectiveness. Policymakers and social planners--at all levels of government and in the private sector--are currently confronted with the problem of evaluating the large number of human service programs that compete for available resources. Academic and Entrepreneurial Research presents a systematic study of the expenditure of federal funds for evaluation research. It reviews federally-supported evaluations of programs, including evaluations of social change experiments and research-demonstration programs funded by the various executive departments of the federal government. Evaluation studies of these large-scale programs vary in scope, quality, and potential utility. Bernstein and Freeman examine all projects initiated during fiscal year 1970 in order to understand better the methods employed, the types of persons engaged in such research, and expectations regarding the utilization of findings. The book provides data about "high" and "low" quality evaluation research and contains recommendations for restructuring the entire evaluation research enterprise in light of the findings. Cover Title page, Copyright page Contents Preface One: The Evaluation-Research Endeavor Two: Design of the Study Three: Federally Supported Evaluation Research Four: Measurement of Process in Evaluation Research Five: Measurement of Impact in Evaluation Research Six: Academic and Entrepreneurial Research: A Multivariate Analysis Seven: Recommendations for a National Policy Appendix I: Agencies Audited Appendix II: Survey on Evaluation Studies of Social Action Programs Appendix III: Matrix of Chi Square Significance Tests for Associations between Selected Independent Variables Appendix IV: Amount of Variance Explained by Each Variable on the Indexes of Research Quality Bibliography Index Ilene Nagel Bernstein And Howard E. Freeman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 179-184) And Index.