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Evaluating program effects: Conceptualizing and demonstrating a typology

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  • Gao, Xingyuan
  • Shen, Jianping
  • Wu, Huang
  • Krenn, Huilan Y.

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Outcome evaluation is very important for program evaluation and has been becoming increasingly so in the age of accountability. Typically, outcome evaluation is conducted for a single program from a single perspective. However, in a real-life situation, many programs exist in a system, and the effects could be viewed from various perspectives. The authors illustrate a typology of program effects in a system. It moves from the paradigm of a single program’s single effect to that of a set of programs’ multiple effects. Methodological implications are discussed.

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  • Gao, Xingyuan & Shen, Jianping & Wu, Huang & Krenn, Huilan Y., 2019. "Evaluating program effects: Conceptualizing and demonstrating a typology," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 88-96.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:72:y:2019:i:c:p:88-96
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.10.008
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