Melvin M Mark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3473508 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melvin M Mark |
| PRENOMES | Melvin M |
| SOBRENOME | Mark |
| ASSINATURA | MARK M M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4545-1553 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Oral History of Thomas A. Schwandt
The Oral History of Evaluation
Blaine Worthen
Doing better in theory-based evaluation, from A to Z
Surfacing, as well as testing, “elliptical assumptions” in a theory of change
The Oral History of Evaluation
George Julnes
Engaging With Program Adaptations in Evaluation
Premised on the idea that evaluators should be familiar with a range of approaches to program modifications, I review several existing approaches and then describe another, less well-recognized option. In this newer option, evaluators work with others to identify potentially needed adaptations for select program aspects in advance. In describing this approach, I note the general steps involved and present alternative techniques for identifying, a…
Strengthening Links Between Evaluation Theory and Practice, and More
George Grob presented the fifth and final Eleanor Chelimsky Forum address at the 2017 annual meeting of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society. In this commentary, I respond to several points that George raises in the American Journal of Evaluation paper based on that address. An overarching theme of my comments involves the potential for strengthening the linkages between evaluation theory and evaluation practice. Research on evaluation should …
The Oral History of Evaluation
The Oral History of Evaluation
Will Shadish
Nonequivalent Group Designs
The Oral History of Evaluation
The Oral History of Evaluation
How Analogue Research Can Advance Descriptive Evaluation Theory
Evaluation theories can be tested in various ways. One approach, the experimental analogue study, is described and illustrated in this article. The approach is presented as a method worthy to use in the pursuit of what Alkin and others have called descriptive evaluation theory. Drawing on analogue studies conducted by the first author, we illustrate the potential benefits and limitations of analogue experiments for studying aspects of evaluation …
Influences on Evaluation Quality
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context, and (c) the level and nature of supportive resources that are available in the evaluation community. …
The Mechanisms and Outcomes of Evaluation Influence
Past literature has identified several putative precursors of use, as well as alternative forms of use. However, important shortcomings still exist in previous work on use. In particular, inadequate attention has been given to the underlying processes that may mediate the effects of evaluation on attitude and action. In essence, a key part of the theory of change for evaluation itself is missing. To help fill this gap, we describe a framework des…
Evaluation Training at Northwestern (And Beyond?)
Beyond Use
Although use is a core construct in the field of evaluation, neither the change processes through which evaluation affects attitudes, beliefs, and actions, nor the interim outcomes that lie between the evaluation and its ultimate goal—social betterment—have been sufficiently developed. We draw a number of these change mechanisms, such as justification, persuasion, and policy diffusion, from the social science research literature, and organize the…
Evaluation Training at Northwestern (And Beyond?)
Correspondence Letter
Evaluation's future
Evaluation’s Future
Responses to relative deprivation
Beyond Use
Although use is a core construct in the field of evaluation, neither the change processes through which evaluation affects attitudes, beliefs, and actions, nor the interim outcomes that lie between the evaluation and its ultimate goal—social betterment—have been sufficiently developed. We draw a number of these change mechanisms, such as justification, persuasion, and policy diffusion, from the social science research literature, and organize the…
The Mechanisms and Outcomes of Evaluation Influence
Past literature has identified several putative precursors of use, as well as alternative forms of use. However, important shortcomings still exist in previous work on use. In particular, inadequate attention has been given to the underlying processes that may mediate the effects of evaluation on attitude and action. In essence, a key part of the theory of change for evaluation itself is missing. To help fill this gap, we describe a framework des…
The effects of sexual permissiveness, target gender, subject gender, and attitude toward women on social perception
Toward an Integrative Framework for Evaluation Practice
Evaluation has been beset with serious divisions, including the paradigm wars and the seeming segmentation of evaluation practice into distinct evaluation theories and approaches. In this paper, we describe key aspects of an integrative framework that may help evaluators move beyond such divisions. We offer a new scheme for categorizing evaluation methods within four inquiry modes, which are “families” or clusters of methods: description, classif…
Evaluation's future
Evaluation’s Future
Involving Parents of High-Risk Youth in Drug Prevention
The study evaluated the incremental effect of a 3-year drug prevention program for high-risk early adolescents, combined with monthly youth activities and parent involvement (Family Advocacy Network [FAN] Club group) relative to: (a) the 3-year drug prevention program with monthly youth activities but without parent involvement (Prevention Plus Youth Activities group), (b) the 3-year drug prevention program alone (Prevention Only group), and (c) …
Drug prevention in a community setting
Tested the effectiveness of a youth drug prevention program in a community setting. Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Stay SMART program, adapted from a school‐based personal and social competence drug prevention program, was offered, with and without a 2‐year booster program, to 13‐year‐old members of Boys & Girls Clubs. Over 27 months, (a) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program, (b) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program…
Influences on Evaluation Quality
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context, and (c) the level and nature of supportive resources that are available in the evaluation community. …
Expectations, procedural justice, and alternative reactions to being deprived of a desired outcome
On the role of dialog in evaluation
The Oral History of Evaluation
The Oral History of Evaluation
On the Role of Dialog in Evaluation
Useful evidence on negative evidence
J. L. Morgan, K. M. Bonamo, and L. L. Travis (1995) applied synchronous and time-series regression techniques to observational data to detect effects of recasted error correction on children's emerging grammar. Results showed that recasts did not facilitate learning but actually impeded it. In this study, a formal modeling procedure was used to generate similar time series with known, underlying learning relations. The regression procedures used …
Increasing Charitable Contributions
The impact of a community action group
Expectations, procedural justice, and alternative reactions to being deprived of a desired outcome
The effects of sexual permissiveness, target gender, subject gender, and attitude toward women on social perception
Social Science and Social Policy
Evaluation Practice in Review
Drug prevention in a community setting
Tested the effectiveness of a youth drug prevention program in a community setting. Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Stay SMART program, adapted from a school-based personal and social competence drug prevention program, was offered, with and without a 2-year booster program, to 13-year-old members of Boys & Girls Clubs. Over 27 months, (a) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program, (b) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program…
Drug prevention in a community setting
Tested the effectiveness of a youth drug prevention program in a community setting. Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Stay SMART program, adapted from a school‐based personal and social competence drug prevention program, was offered, with and without a 2‐year booster program, to 13‐year‐old members of Boys & Girls Clubs. Over 27 months, (a) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program, (b) 5 Boys & Girls Clubs offered the Stay SMART program…
Effects of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients
Useful evidence on negative evidence
J. L. Morgan, K. M. Bonamo, and L. L. Travis (1995) applied synchronous and time-series regression techniques to observational data to detect effects of recasted error correction on children's emerging grammar. Results showed that recasts did not facilitate learning but actually impeded it. In this study, a formal modeling procedure was used to generate similar time series with known, underlying learning relations. The regression procedures used …
Involving Parents of High-Risk Youth in Drug Prevention
The study evaluated the incremental effect of a 3-year drug prevention program for high-risk early adolescents, combined with monthly youth activities and parent involvement (Family Advocacy Network [FAN] Club group) relative to: (a) the 3-year drug prevention program with monthly youth activities but without parent involvement (Prevention Plus Youth Activities group), (b) the 3-year drug prevention program alone (Prevention Only group), and (c) …
Toward an integrative framework for evaluation practice
Toward an Integrative Framework for Evaluation Practice
Evaluation has been beset with serious divisions, including the paradigm wars and the seeming segmentation of evaluation practice into distinct evaluation theories and approaches. In this paper, we describe key aspects of an integrative framework that may help evaluators move beyond such divisions. We offer a new scheme for categorizing evaluation methods within four inquiry modes, which are “families” or clusters of methods: description, classif…
Social science evidence in the courtroom
Social science evidence in the courtroom
On the Role of Dialog in Evaluation
On the role of dialog in evaluation
Evaluation's future
Evaluation’s Future
Boys & girls clubs and school collaborations
This study tested the effectiveness of a multicomponent after-school substance abuse prevention program for high-risk second- and third-grade children implemented collaboratively by Boys & Girls Clubs and their local schools. The 2-year program was designed to reduce risk factors predictive of later substance abuse, and to enhance protective factors shown to buffer risk. Results showed positive effects on program children's personal competency sk…
Correspondence Letter
Evaluation Training at Northwestern (And Beyond?)
Beyond Use
Although use is a core construct in the field of evaluation, neither the change processes through which evaluation affects attitudes, beliefs, and actions, nor the interim outcomes that lie between the evaluation and its ultimate goal—social betterment—have been sufficiently developed. We draw a number of these change mechanisms, such as justification, persuasion, and policy diffusion, from the social science research literature, and organize the…
Evaluation Training at Northwestern (And Beyond?)
The Mechanisms and Outcomes of Evaluation Influence
Past literature has identified several putative precursors of use, as well as alternative forms of use. However, important shortcomings still exist in previous work on use. In particular, inadequate attention has been given to the underlying processes that may mediate the effects of evaluation on attitude and action. In essence, a key part of the theory of change for evaluation itself is missing. To help fill this gap, we describe a framework des…
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