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Evaluation and Program Planning, Vol. 16, pp. I-VIII, 1993 0149-7189/93 $6.00 + .00 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved. Copyright © 1993 Pergamon Press Ltd. CONTENTS INDEX VOLUME 16, 1993 Volume 16, Number 1 January-March, 1993 CONTENTS Joel M. Moskowitz Why Reports of Outcome Evaluations Are Often Biased or Uninterpretable: Examples From Evaluations of Drug Abuse Prevention Programs Dennis J. Palumbo 1] Conflict Versus Consensus Models in Policy Evaluation and Michael A. Hallett Implementation Simon Hakim 25 The Delphi Process as a Tool for Decision Making: The Case of J. Weinblatt Vocational Training of People With Handicaps Xinyi Xu 39 Policy Evaluation in China’s Housing Reform Nick L. Smith 49 The Project Vita as a Documentation and Evaluation Tool for Barbara M. Florini Large-Scale Research and Development Projects Karen E. Kirkhart 55 Value Bases of Case Management Evaluation Mary Carmel Ruffolo 67 Issue Contributors Inside back cover Instructions to Authors Volume 16, Number 2 April-June, 1993 CONTENTS Kenneth Byalin 69 Assessing Parental Satisfaction With Children’s Mental Health Services: A Pilot Study Michael L. Dennis 73 Developing Training and Employment Programs to Meet the Georgia T. Karuntzos Needs of Methadone Treatment Clients Gail L. McDougal Michael T. French Robert L. Hubbard Frank P. Deane 87 Client Satisfaction With Psychotherapy in Two Outpatient Clinics in New Zealand Joyce Miller lutcovich 95 Assessing the Needs of Rural Elderly: An Empowerment Model Ill IV Contents Index Michel Perreault 109 Patient Satisfaction With Outpatient Psychiatric Services: Pierre Leichner Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments Stéphane Sabourin Pierre Gendreau Bruce Rocheleau 119 Evaluating Public Sector Information Systems: Satisfaction Versus Impact Bernadette E. Russek 131 Mixed Methods in a Study of Implementation of Technology-Based Sharon L. Weinberg Materials in the Elementary Classroom Alan G. Ryan 143 An Examination of the Place of Formal Recommendations in Naturalistic Evaluations Joy M. Tanji 149 Wishing for a One-Armed Expert: Recommendation as a Philosophical Attitude Ronald W. Thompson 153 Application of Assessment Methods to Instruction in a High Al Bosn School Writing Program Penney R. Ruma Leah K. Gensheimer 159 School-Based Preventive Interventions for At-Risk Populations: Tim S. Ayers Practical and Ethical Issues Mark W. Roosa 169 Issue Contributors Inside back cover Instructions to Authors Volume 16, Number 3 July-September, 1993 CONTENTS ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST Douglas L. Piper 171 Implementing a Middle School Health Promotion Research Monica J. King Project: Lessons Our Textbook Didn’t Teach Us D. Paul Moberg Frank R. Funderburk 181 Evaluation of the Multiple Offender Alcoholism Project: Alisdair Mackenzie Quasiexperimental Evaluation Strategy With a Focus on Gale P. DeHaven Individual Change and Quality of Life Robin Stefan Richard P. Allen Kevin Brazil 193 Mental Health Needs of Children and Youth With Learning Richard Cummings Disabilities: Overview of a Community Needs Assessment Denise Vallance Contents Index V Nancy B. Mock 199 The Utility of Case-Control Methods for Health Policy and Robert J. Magnani Planning Analysis: An Illustration From Kinshasa, Zaire Lusamba Dikassa Janet C. Rice Ahmed A. Abdoh William E. Bertrand David M. Mercer BOOK REVIEW John T. Theiss 207 Getting Results: A Guide for Government Accountability by Jack A. Brizius and Michael D. Campbell SPECIAL FEATURE: SHARING THE BEST: FINDING BETTER WAYS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO USE EVALUATION TO GUIDE THE DISSEMINATION OF PROMISING AND EXEMPLARY EDUCATION SOLUTIONS Susan Shurberg Klein, Guest Editor Michael Scriven 209 Foreword Susan Shurberg Klein 213 Guest Editor’s Introduction: Sharing the Best: Finding Better Ways for the Federal Government to Use Evaluation to Guide the Dissemination of Promising and Exemplary Education Solutions Lois-ellin Datta) 219 Best Wishes and Many Happy Returns: Some Federal Efforts in Recognizing the Best Susan Shurberg Klein’ 227 Are There Better Ways to Identify and Share the Best Within and Among Federal Education Programs? Conrad G. Katzenmeyer 241 Identifying the Best in Mathematics and Science at the U.S. Department of Education Thomas G. Carroll 245 Strategies to Share the Best in Postsecondary Education at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Joyce Fralic Cook 251 Sharing the Best: The Dissemination System in Vocational and Adult Education Elois M. Scott 259 Searching for the Best: The Chapter 1 Experience in the U.S. Department of Education Martin Kaufman 263 A Federal Perspective on Improving Practices, Programs, and Ellen Schiller Policies in Special Education Beatrice Birman Martha Coutinho Contents Index Laurence Peters 271 Toward a Reciprocal Research, Development, and Dissemination System: The Struggle for a New Paradigm in the Reauthorization of the Office of Research and Improvement 275 Issue Contributors Inside back cover Instructions to Authors Volume 16, Number 4 October-December, 1993 CONTENTS ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST James W. Altschuld 279 The Utilization of Needs Assessment Results Jung Sook Yoon Carol Cullen Paul R. Brandon 287 Enhancing Validity Through Beneficiaries’ Equitable Involvement Barbara J. Newton in Identifying and Prioritizing Homeless Children’s Educational James W. Harman Problems Michael J. Camasso 295 Using Multiattribute Utility Theory as a Priority-setting Tool in Janet Dick Human Services Planning David Jarjoura 305 Synthetic Estimation of the Distribution of Mentally Disabled Gary McCord Adults for Allocations to Ohio’s Mental Health Board Areas Charles E. Holzer, Ill Timothy F. Champney Deborah Fournier 315 Clarifying the Merits of Argument in Evaluation Practice Nick L. Smith SPECIAL FEATURE: UTILIZING CLIENT OUTCOMES TO IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: COPING WITH ORGANIZATIONAL REALITIES, CONCERNS ABOUT RELEVANCE, AND THE BELIEVABILITY OF THE DATA Rex S. Green and Frederick L Newman, Guest Editors Rex S. Green 325 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Utilizing Client Outcomes to Frederick L Newman Improve the Delivery of Mental Health Services: Coping With Organizational Realities, Concerns About Relevance, and the Believability of the Data Paula N. Goering 329 Promoting the Utilization of Outcome Study Results by Assuming Donald A. Wasylenki Multiple Roles Within an Organization Timothy F. Champney 335 Comments on the Use of Multiple Roles to Maximize the Utilization of Outcome Research Contents Index Vil Carol T. Mowbray 337 The Challenge of Outcome Evaluation in Homeless Services: Evan Cohen Engagement as an Intermediate Outcome Measure Deborah Bybee Abram Rosenblatt 347 Assessing Outcomes for Sufferers of Severe Mental Disorder: C. Clifford Attkisson A Conceptual Framework and Review Rex S. Green 365 Three Dimensions Mental Health Professionals Emphasize When Judging Levels of Functioning of the Severely Mentally Disabled in the Community Issue Contributors I Volume 16 List of Contents and Author Index Inside back cover Instructions to Authors AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 16, 1993 Abdoh, A. A., 199 Gendreau, P., 109 Palumbo, D. J., 11 Allen, R. P., 181 Gensheimer, L. K., 159 Perreault, M., 109 Altschuld, J. W., 279 Goering, P. N., 329 Peters, L., 271 Attkisson, C. C., 347 Green, R. S., 325, 365 Piper, D. L., 171 Ayers, T. S., 159 Hakim, S., 25 Hallett, M. A., 11 Rice, J. C., 199 Bertrand, W. E., 199 Harman, J. W., 287 Rocheleau, B., 119 Holzer, C. E., III, 305 Birman, B., 263 Roosa, M. W., 159 Bosn, A., 153 Hubbard, R. L., 73 Rosenblatt, A., 347 Brandon, P. R., 287 Ruffolo, M. C., 55 Iutcovich, J. M., 95 Brazil, K., 193 Ruma, P. R., 153 Byalin, K., 69 Russek, B. E., 131 Jarjoura, D., 305 Bybee, D., 337 Ryan, A. G., 143 Karuntzos, G. T., 73 Camasso, M. J., 295 Sabourin, S., 109 Katzenmeyer, C. G., 241 Carroll, T. G., 245 Schiller, E., 263 Kaufman, M., 263 Champney, T. F., 305, 335 Scott, E. M., 259 King, M. J., 171 Cohen, E., 337 Scriven, M., 209 Kirkhart, K. E., 55 Cook, J. F., 251 Smith, N. L., 49, 315 Klein, S. S., 213, 227 Coutinho, M., 263 Stefan, R., 181 Cullen, C., 279 Leichner, P., 109 Cummings, R., 193 Tanji, J. M., 149 Theiss, J. T., 207 Mackenzie, A., 181 Datta, L-E., 219 Thompson, R. W., 153 Magnani, R. J., 199 Deane, F. P., 87 McCord, G., 305 DeHaven, G. P., 181 Vallance, D., 193 McDougal, G. L., 73 Dennis, M. L., 73 Mercer, D. M., 199 Dick, J., 295 Moberg, D. P., 171 Wasylenki, D. A., 329 Dikassa, L., 199 Mock, N. B., 199 Weinberg, S. L., 131 Moskowitz, J. M., 1 Weinblatt, J., 25 Florini, B. M., 49 Mowbray, C., 337 Fournier, D., 315 Xu, X., 39 French, M. T., 73 Newman, F. L, 325 Funderburk, F. R., 181 Newton, B. J., 287 Yoon, J. S. 279 Vill