Using Performance Standards To Evaluate Social Programs with Incomplete Outcome Data: General Issues and Application to a Higher Education Block Grant Program.

Manski, Charles F.; Newman, John; Pepper, John V.

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ERIC Number: EJ656649

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2002

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Using Performance Standards To Evaluate Social Programs with Incomplete Outcome Data: General Issues and Application to a Higher Education Block Grant Program.

Manski, Charles F.; Newman, John; Pepper, John V.

Evaluation Review, v26 n4 p355-81 Aug 2002

Considers how performance standards should be set and applied in the face of problems caused by auxiliary outcomes (outcomes other than those of interest) and counterfactual outcomes (the threshold standard not observed). Makes the case that the proper way to implement standards varies with the prior information an evaluator can credibly bring to bear to compensate for incomplete outcome data. (SLD)

Descriptors: Block Grants, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Outcomes of Treatment, Performance, Program Evaluation, Social Action, Standards

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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