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"With the publication of Theory-Driven Evaluations, Huey-Tsyh Chen has given us an ambitious volume. . . . Indeed, it is the aspiration of this book to provide a conceptual framework that integrates the diverse approaches and paradigms of evaluation. For those of us accustomed to the rhetoric of the paradigm wars that have been raging in recent years, it is refreshing to find a text that works so assiduously at reconciliation. . . . There is much that is useful in Chen's analysis. He gives us a full and thoughtful book that attempts no less than the construction of a conceptual framework for all of program evaluation. . . . It provides an impressive compendium of source material and references spanning not only evaluation, but related work in economics and public policy (this alone is worth the price of the book). . . . Chen's Theory-Driven Evaluations provides a stimulating, even heroic attempt to bring some conceptual integration to a field that has been too long dominated by methodological paradigms and procedural particulars." --a prepublication review for Evaluation and Program Planning "Generous use of examples which are well selected and lucidly summarized." --Contemporary Sociology "Chen introduces a new, comprehensive framework for program evaluation that is designed to bridge the gap between method and theory-oriented perspectives. . . . For program planners, decision makers, scholars, and students, this volume clarifies, illuminates and provides unique insights into the conception, construction and implementation of a wide range of programs. . . . The research examples used in the discussion draw upon various areas, such as education, welfare, health, criminal justice, job training [and] family construction to attract a wider audience." --Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling Program evaluation has traditionally emphasized the application of social science research methods in evaluation activities. However, there is a growing awareness that program theory is vital for broadening the scope and enhancing the usefulness of program evaluation. In Theory-Driven Evaluations, Huey-Tsyh Chen introduces a new, comprehensive framework for program evaluation that is designed to bridge the gap between the method- and theory-oriented perspectives. He provides an intensive discussion of the nature and functions of program theory, approaches to constructing program theories, and the integration of program theory with evaluation processes. Specific types of theory-driven evaluations, as well as principles and guidelines for application are developed for meeting different policy purposes. Application of systematic strategies is illustrated by concrete examples from a variety of evaluation studies in different fields. The presentation of this new perspective directly addresses the needs and concerns in both the professional and applied areas of program evaluation. For program planners, decisionmakers, scholars and students, this volume will clarify, illuminate, and provide unique insights into the conception, construction, and implementation of a wide range of programs.

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Evaluation Classic.......2007-06-27

Chen's book, and his subsequent work, introduced the role of program theory and program logic diagrams as core elements essential to evaluaton method. This approach supports the blending of "hard science" schools of evaluation that stress scientific method, random samples, experimential and quasi-experimental design with the naturalistic, social relations oriented schools by emphasizing the importance of bringing to an evaluation extensive subject-matter knowledge for the development of program theory. Program theory (and associated logic diagrams) then takes precedence in framing the research questions and indicating how methods should be deployed, as well as how quantitative and qualitative methods should be configured in an evaluation. This is different from the simple joining of impact and process evaluation on a project because it moves some elements of process evaluation to the heart of strategy for impact evaluation, and improves both quantitative and qualitative results for both internal validity and generalization. Chen proposes an extensive typology for these relationships. In some ways the book documents a conceptual breakthough for evaluation that also occurs in every social science that has experienced a "struggle of methods" between schools of quantitative and qualitative insights. There are "many roads to the city," and Campbell's quasi-experimental design school, for example, includes these synergies in practical work. But this is the book that made the difference in this field (evaluation). It is quite well written, clear, and can serve as a core text on evaluation method.

Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency - ICATPN 2006: 27th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency - ICATPN 2006: 27th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2006, held in Turku, Finland in June 2006.

The 16 revised full papers and 6 revised tool papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 93 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems are addressed, in particular UML and Petri nets in software development, networking, workflow management, biochemical network analysis, systems modeling, process semantics probabilistic modeling, embedded systems, software services, performance analysis and simulation.

Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications

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Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications
Stewart I. Donaldson
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science fills the gap between 21st century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice. It features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. Commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation are outlined, followed by comprehensive accounts of how those strategies have played out in the face of the complexities and challenges of "real world" settings. In so doing, the book illustrates the authentic challenges of implementing an evaluation approach in practice.

Author Stewart Donaldson provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the practice of program theory-driven evaluation science. Each case follows a three-step model: developing program impact theory; formulating and prioritizing evaluation questions; and answering evaluation questions. Initial chapters discuss the emergence of program theory-driven evaluation science and specific strategies for carrying out each of the three steps. Succeeding chapters address recent applications and practical implications of evaluation science. The challenges and lessons learned from the cases are then reviewed.

This volume is of significant value to evaluation practitioners, professors and trainers of evaluation, evaluation researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a text for courses in evaluation and applied research methods. It is also of great interest to those interested in the connections between work and health, career development, human service organizations, and organizational improvement and effectiveness.

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A theory-driven approach to evaluating quality of nursing care.(Health Policy and Systems): An article from: Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Souraya Sidani , Diane M. Doran , and Pamela H. Mitchell
Manufacturer: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship, published by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 5296 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A theory-driven approach to evaluating quality of nursing care.(Health Policy and Systems)
Author: Souraya Sidani
Publication: Journal of Nursing Scholarship (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Page: 60(6)

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Evaluation tools for real-time message scheduling algorithms: Analytic solver versus event-driven simulator = Outils d'evaluation d'algorithmes d'ordonnancement ... Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
Philippe Jacquet
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Theory-Driven Evaluations
Huey-tsyh Chen
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A theory-driven framework for evaluating youth programs (PONPO working paper)

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A theory-driven framework for evaluating youth programs (PONPO working paper)
Miriam Mason Wood
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Eco-Farm

Rough but Ready

The best source on caring for the soil I have ever read!

Eco-Farm: An Acres U.S.A. Primer
Charles Walters , and C. J. Fenzau
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ASIN: 0911311505

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In this book, eco-agriculture is explained — from the tiniest molecular building blocks to managing the soil — in terminology that not only makes the subject easy to learn, but vibrantly alive. Eco-Farm truly delivers a complete education in soils, crops, and weed and insect control.

Chapters provide detailed discussions of trace elements, tillage, the N,P&K concept, animal health, crops, soil carbon and calcium, insects, soil life, crop rotation, and much more.

This should be the first book read by everyone beginning in eco-agriculture . . . and the most shop-worn book on the shelf of the most experienced.

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Sense not nonsense.......2007-07-23

I left college full of scientific knowledge and spent thirty years amending that with experience. Though I cannot subscribe to Steiner's Bio-dynamics I do follow sustainable farming techniques - those thirty years have taught me something. In this primer, that has been distilled and laid out clearly and without preaching as many "eco" texts do.

An excellent essay on conservative farming, blending the agro-science with eco-science.

Eco-Farm.......2006-08-09

If only every person that ever eats food read this book as a set work at school, the level of intelligence across the literate world would double. No longer would advertising companies have such a gullible audience. No longer would the medical and medical insurance industry have such a ready customer base.
And most of all, the customer of the farmer/producer would not tolerate the practices in industrial agriculture, and in turn, small farmers would not be trying to ape their "big brothers"

Rough but Ready.......2006-06-05

I agree with the previous reviewer - that Charles Walters is a bit condescending, but we allow this to genius in any other discipline. The book is billed as "the definitive guide to managing farm and ranch soil fertility etc..." But this book is not a technician's handbook about farming, it is a primer for a massive paradigm shift in the way we look at the entire eco-sphere, about our estrangement from the soil from which we derive our "permission for life" - and about a milieu of degenerative disease which necessarily flows from such a tragic estrangement.

Part of Walter's arrogance is really just conviction. It is the utter conviction of a Socrates or a Copernicus or an Einstein, who will brook no humility about truth. A sociopath does not a prophet make, but a true prophet will always be marginalized as one by the sociological institution from which he speaks. And this is because institutional science, "tries to harmonize the latest discoveries with the incongruities of its false position."

Paradigm shift is not fun. It is adventurous, but painful. No one looks for the painful adventure until the pain of institutional inertia becomes unbearable. Walters himself proposes a paradigm shift of such massive proportions that it quite exceeds his own modest proposals. Unless our agronomy exceeds the righteousness of the "environmental movement" we will never see symbiosis in our generation.

The best source on caring for the soil I have ever read!.......1997-07-18

Even though the beginning of the book has a slightly arrogant writing style, it is the best book on sustainable agriculture I have ever read. It is filled with the science behind the claims that, although complex, is easy to understand. It will make converts of even the most chemically dependent gardener or farmer if they have an open mind going in. It truely is THE organic primer Bible

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Everybody should read Everybody's Comet!.......1998-07-01

The arrival of Hale-Bopp added a lot to my winter of 1997. I loved its ever-present image in the night sky. I'd open the front door and look slightly skyward. There it was, for months on end; a beautiful gift. I was sorry to see it go, so I went to books-in-print to see what I could actually find out about the comet. I found, to my delight, Mr. Hale's generous read. He lets us share his joy in having found the comet, and teaches a lot about basic astronomy in the process. Yes, Alan Hale's ship came in, and it was a beautiful comet. Fortunately, he brought it to life in a book, too. So, now that the comet is out of our realm of sight, grab a deck chair and read about it! You'll be glad you did.

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The search for useful biochemical compounds and genes in nature has been the focus of international negotiations for more than a decade, yet debate on the terms for access to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing is far from settled.

This book examines the optimal property rights structures and institutional mechanisms for regulating bioprospecting for drug research. Focusing on the economics of contracts, it shows that the rights exchanged are complementary at each stage of drug discovery and development of genetic resources. The author examines bioprospecting collaborations in several countries and critiques institutional and contractual factors that led to their success or failure.

This is one of the first books to address the contractual complexities of bioprospecting for drug research and is thus a key text for policy makers, practitioners and scholars in the areas of law, economics, ethnobotany, anthropology, and environmental sciences.

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best golf information

Very analytical book - good pictures

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Great Book

The 7 Laws of the Golf Swing
Nick Bradley
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Leading tour coach Nick Bradley shows you how to build a powerful and consistent golf swing with his revolutionary approach, which distills the swing into seven laws to help golfers develop a greater awareness of the correct swing motion.

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best golf information.......2007-10-05

This is a must read book for every golfer. Especially mid handicapers (10- 15). He focuses on how the golf swing should feel, from grip to impact and completion of swing. He gives excellent examples for the feel, especially feather feel. I am reading this book every chance I get, I bet you will to.

Very analytical book - good pictures.......2007-07-25

I found the pictures in this book helpfull - they also look pretty cool. Some of the explanations of the optimal body postures are not straightforward and they require a second or a third reading - however this is a compliment since this book is not over-simplifying things - the author makes an effort explaining all the subtilities of golf.

Long Over Due.......2007-06-01

The brilliance of this book is in the fact that it uses pictures to explain the golf swing. As humans we think in pictures anyway and is why words alone are often a waste of time. Bradely also uses words along with the pictures but this only adds to the power those pictures have to emblazen the proper feel into the golf swing. Telling someone to feel that they have a nail driven through both hands to create a great grip is not as lasting as seeing the actual picture.

THANK YOU NICK BRADLEY.......2007-05-29

THANK YOU NICK BRADLEY - WHAT A GREAT BOOK! THE CLEAR TEXT SUPPORTED BY EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS ESTABLISHES A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE GOLF SWING AND HOW TO IDENTIFY AND RECTIFY FAULTS. WITH A LOT OF STUDY, EXPERIMENTATION AND PRACTICE I AM WELL ON THE WAY TO DEVELOPING A LOW MAINTENANCE GOLF SWING.

Great Book.......2007-05-13

A very informative book that belongs on the shelf of every golfer, novice or pro. It improved my game enormously!

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Getting the most out of your travels means staying healthy. Healthy Travel Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific is a user-friendly guide to minimising health risks and dealing with problems while on the road.

tailored advice for travellers of all ages and needs
how to deal with common travel health problems, from diarrhoea to swimmer's ear
avoiding wildlife hazards, from crocs to snakes and spiders
first aid and wilderness safety
guide to alternative therapies and traditional medicine

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Even better than the original.......2005-02-14

The first cave of time was a breakthrough. This time around, Edward Packard as writer and Don Hedin as illustrator pulled toghether and perfected the ultimate CYOA book. It's wild to conceive that the original survivor would return to the cave once more knowing that he could very well lose his life, but that's what the appeal is all about. There is a strong sense of adventure in these pages and definitely deserves to be back in print.

fun.......1999-12-14

Return to the cave of time is fun because I like how I get to choose whatever I would do in real life instead of going along with the character in the book. I also like how the author writes with excitement and scariness at the same time. I would recommend it for starting readers.

Another great Choose Your Own Adventure.......1999-04-16

Another great sequel to that mysterious cave of time. This is a great book. Any "choose your own adventure" lover should read it (if its available) It shouldn't be out of print!

Good fun.......1998-12-22

This one is better than the original "Cave of Time," which kicked off this fascinating series. Packard is the best of the series authors, and by this time he has it down to a science.

Fright Time #14: Eye of the Spider; Strike Up the Fear; Cave of No Return

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Fright Time #14: Eye of the Spider; Strike Up the Fear; Cave of No Return
Rochelle (ed.) Larkin
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Fright Time (3 Spine-tingling Tales for Young Readers) Eye of the Spider, Strike up the fear, and Cave of no return

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Fright Time (3 Spine-tingling Tales for Young Readers) Eye of the Spider, Strike up the fear, and Cave of no return
Rochelle Larkin and Joshua Hanft
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