Ways in which qualitative methods are viewed relative to evaluation research are described. Topics include: the changing climate in evaluation research and its philosopical/conceptual background; actual evaluation efforts; data gathering techniques; and how to comprehend these data. (Author/GK)

Risks of life on the street caused by inclement weather, harassment, and assault threaten the unsheltered homeless population. We address some challenges of enumerating the street homeless population by testing a novel capture-recapture (CR) estimation approach that models individuals' intermittent daytime visibility. We tested walking and…

The histories of five multisite, qualitative policy studies were examined to see how much variation in formalization reflected the technical requirements of the research problem, the demands of the federal client, and the preferences of the project team and its professional network. (Author/PN)