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Fighting for reliable evidence / Judith M. Gueron and Howard Rolston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gueron, Judith M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--United States--Evaluation.
- Social service.
- Social service--Research.
- United States.
- Evaluation.
- Social service--Research--United States.
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)--United States.
- Evaluation research (Social action programs).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 575 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Tables and figures
- About the authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and dedication
- Chapter 1. Introduction: the issue, the method, and the story in brief
- Chapter 2. They said it couldn't be done: the national supported work demonstration
- Chapter 3. Bridge to the 1980s: Implementing random assignment in work incentive program offices and testing a job guarantee
- Chapter 4. Inventing a new paradigm: the states as laboratories
- Chapter 5. The Reagan revolution and research capacity within the Department of Health and Human Services: from near destruction to new growth
- Chapter 6. The work/welfare demonstration: lessons about programs, research, and dissemination
- Chapter 7. Waiver evaluations: how random assignment evaluation came to be the standard for approval
- Chapter 8. Expanding the agenda: the role of basic education
- Chapter 9. The JOBS evaluation: cumulative evidence on basic education versus work first
- Chapter 10. Expanding the agenda II: three experiments to make work pay
- Chapter 11. The end of our story: welfare reform recedes from the spotlight of random assignment program evaluation
- Chapter 12. Conclusion and lessons
- Coda. Random assignment takes center stage
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Note on sources
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-552) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781610448130
- 1610448138
- Publisher Number:
- 99976954601
- 40022702546
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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