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Are Participants Good Evaluators? Jeffrey Smith, Alexander Whalley, Nathaniel Wilcox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Andrew), 1962- author.
- Wilcox, Nathaniel Thomas, 1960- author.
- Whalley, Alexander, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social surveys--Evaluation.
- Social surveys.
- Participant observation.
- Evaluation research (Social action programs).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- W.E. Upjohn Institute 2021
- Kalamazoo, Michigan : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2019.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Managers of workforce training programs are often unable to afford costly, full-fledged experimental or nonexperimental evaluations to determine their programs' impacts. Therefore, many rely on the survey responses of program participants to gauge program impacts. Smith, Whalley, and Wilcox present the first attempt to assess such measures despite their already widespread use in program evaluations. They develop a multidisciplinary framework for addressing the issue and apply it to three case studies: the National Job Training Partnership Act Study, the U.S. National Supported Work Demonstration, and the Connecticut Jobs First Program. Each of these studies were subjected to experimental evaluations that included a survey-based participant evaluation measure. The authors apply econometric methods specifically developed to obtain estimates of program impacts among individuals in the studies and then compare these estimates with survey-based participant evaluation measures to obtain an assessment of the surveys' efficacy. The authors also discuss how their findings fit into the broader literatures in economics, psychology, and survey research.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Are Participants Good Evaluators?
- 2 Three Viewpoints
- 3 Econometric Framework
- 4 Evidence from the National JTPA Study
- 5 Evidence from the National Supported Work Demonstration
- 6 Evidence from the Connecticut Jobs First Program
- 7 Alternatives to Typical Participant Evaluation Questions
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Authors
- About the Institute.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-88099-658-7
- OCLC:
- 1280456754
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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