Evaluating Program Effects: Conceptualizing and Demonstrating a Typology

Publication date: Available online 5 October 2018Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Xingyuan Gao, Jianping Shen, Wu Huang, Huilan Y. KrennAbstractOutcome 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.
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research