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Why do many social programs have such a poor track record? What can we do to maximize a program's chance of success? If a program shows promise, how can we scale it up? To answer these questions confronting policymakers, and to ensure that strong programs are designed, developed, implemented, and taken to scale, appropriate evaluation approaches must be used throughout a program's life cycle. In The Oxford Handbook on Program Design and Implementation Evaluation, Dr. Anu Rangarajan surfaces insights and expertise from a team of eminent scholars to create a comprehensive and actionable toolbox of evaluation methodologies that can be used to examine social programs throughout their life cycle. The methodologies presented in the Handbook describe how to conduct developmental evaluations, perform rapid-cycle evaluations, employ implementation science concepts, assess program effectiveness in the absence of a true counterfactual, measure cost-effectiveness, scale up promising interventions, and assess systems change. Incorporating these approaches at every stage of a program's life cycle will maximize its chances of success; doing so consistently across social programs will help improve their impact overall.

This Handbook is an action-oriented primary resource for social researchers, faculty and students, program practitioners, policy analysts, and funders of social programs and evaluations. By providing real-world examples of each approach alongside methodological guidance, and by highlighting challenges and lessons learned, the Handbook is invaluable to novices and seasoned professionals alike.

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Title The Oxford Handbook of Program Design and Implementation Evaluation
Author Anu Rangarajan
Binding Hardback
Pages 672
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 2023-10-13
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780190059668 / 0190059664
Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
Dimensions 9.5 x 7.2 x 2.8 in (24.13 x 18.29 x 7.11 cm)
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Social action, Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022054367
Dewey Decimal Code 301

About the author

Anu Rangarajan is a Senior Fellow at Mathematica and has a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. During her 32-year career at Mathematica, she has led numerous large-scale evaluations around the world. She specializes in impact evaluations, process and performance evaluations, rapid-cycle evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and scale-up studies. Her work spans agriculture, infrastructure, education and workforce, welfare and poverty reduction, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, and climate change. She has taught program evaluation at the School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the University of Maryland.

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