Evaluability Assessment: A Tool for Program Development in Corrections

摘要

We intend this monograph to serve as a guide to practitioners in community and211u001einstitutional correctional programs and to encourage the use of evaluability 211u001eassessments (Eas) as tools rather than 'win/loose' propositions. Indeed, most of 211u001ethe questions addressed by Eas center on how well the program has been planned. 211u001eThe essence of this monograph, then, is on how to plan and develop the type of 211u001eprogram that is likely to produce a successful comprehensive evaluation. Such an 211u001eevaluation would examine both the integrity of the program's services and their 211u001eeffectiveness . The monograph will also move beyond the early technology of 211u001eevaluability assessments to models that better fit present-day correctional 211u001eprogramming. We note that correctional evaluability assessments of today reflect 211u001ethe results of a second, more successful, wave of evaluation studies, published 211u001efrom the mid-1980's to the present.