 The third edition of Program Evaluation: An Introduction is designed, first and foremost, as a primary text for graduate students in social work and other related disciplines who are enrolled in a program evaluation course.
It is written by UGA Research Professor and School of Social Work Ph.D. program director Bruce Thyer, New York University’s Deborah Padgett, and the University of Kentucky’s David Royse and T.K. Logan.
“We recognize that relatively few practitioners in the human services of social work, psychology, counseling, education, public administration and nursing will have careers devoted to scientific research,” the authors write in the book’s introduction. “However, everyone in those fields will be concerned with providing services to clients at some level, and every human services practitioner will be intensely interested in learning whether the services provided really do help the clients they are intended to serve.”
Program Evaluation, which includes new chapters on qualitative evaluation, ethics and data analysis, helps readers evaluate services and programs using scientifically credible research tools. In the process of learning these evaluation techniques and skills, readers also become proficient at critically analyzing evaluation studies conducted by others.
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