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From Partnerships to Networks: New Approaches for Measuring U. S. National Heritage Area Effectiveness
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Laven, Daniel N.; Krymkowski, Daniel H.; Ventriss, Curtis L.; Manning, Robert E.; Mitchell, Nora J. – Evaluation Review, 2010
National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are an alternative and increasingly popular form of protected area management in the United States. NHAs seek to integrate environmental objectives with community and economic objectives at regional or landscape scales. NHA designations have increased rapidly in the last 20 years, generating a substantial need for…
Descriptors: Historic Sites, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Land Use
Level-I Trauma Center Effects on Return-to-Work Outcomes
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Prada, Sergio I.; Salkever, David; MacKenzie, Ellen J. – Evaluation Review, 2012
Background: Injury is the leading cause of death for persons aged 1-44 years in the United States. Injuries have a substantial economic cost. For that reason, regional systems of trauma care in which the more acutely injured patients are transported to Level-I (L-I) trauma centers (TCs) has been widely advocated. However, the cost of TC care is…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Injuries, Patients, Probability
Use of Propensity Score Matching to Evaluate a National Smoking Cessation Media Campaign
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Villanti, Andrea C.; Cullen, Jennifer; Vallone, Donna M.; Stuart, Elizabeth A. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Sustained mass media campaigns have been recommended to stem the tobacco epidemic in the United States. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to estimate the effect of awareness of a national smoking cessation media campaign (EX[R]) on quit attempts and cessation-related cognition. Participants were 4,067 smokers and recent quitters aged 18-49…
Descriptors: Smoking, Mass Media, Prevention, Health Promotion
The Persuasive Impact of Two Evaluation Reports on Agricultural Extension Administrators from Two Countries.
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Russon, Craig; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1995
Because of increased aid to developing nations, cross-cultural evaluation has become more common. Whether culture has an influence on evaluation was studied by simulating a study of Mexican and U.S. agricultural administrators. Results demonstrate the effects of cultural differences on evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Agricultural Occupations, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Welfare Reform and Child Care: Evidence from 10 Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs
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Robins, Philip K. – Evaluation Review, 2007
This article examines the employment and child care responses of families participating in 10 experimental welfare reform programs conducted in the United States between 1989 and 2002. For the programs analyzed, child care use increases by about the same amount as the increase in employment. Most of the increased child care comprises informal care…
Descriptors: Employment, Welfare Services, Child Care, Welfare Recipients
Interviewer as Instrument: Accounting for Human Factors in Evaluation Research
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Brown, Joel H. – Evaluation Review, 2006
This methodological study examines an original data collection model designed to incorporate human factors and enhance data richness in qualitative and evaluation research. Evidence supporting this model is drawn from in-depth youth and adult interviews in one of the largest policy/program evaluations undertaken in the United States, the Drug,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Observation, Evaluation Research, Cues