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Article: Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, Sixth Edition.(Review) (book review)
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- The Journal of Environmental Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, Sixth Edition, by Peter H. Rossi, Howard E. Freeman, and Mark W. Lipsey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1999. Hardback. 500 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-7619-0893-5.
This is the sixth edition of a reasonably comprehensive text in the area of evaluation, which the authors alternatively refer to as program evaluation and evaluation research. The broad intellectual tradition on which the authors draw and rely is the social science research tradition. "Program evaluation is the use of social science research procedures to systematically investigate the effectiveness of social intervention programs" (p. 4). The types of social programs to which this ...