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Assessing Treatment Implementation Amid the Slings and Arrows of Reality

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  • Eva Lantos Rezmovic

    (Program Evaluation and Methodology Division U. S. General Accounting Office)

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Increasing numbers of evaluators are cognizant of the need to observe treatment systemat ically. To date, however, little headway has been made toward operationalizing and executing the required effort. In the context of an experiment in criminal justice, a number of "real world" constraints on documenting, monitoring, and measuring treatment imple mentation are discussed. The contract researcher who is hired to conduct an impact evaluation af a black box intervention cannot readily divert the study'sfocus andfunds to an examination of process. By incorporating provisions for gathering implementation data into theirfundingcriteria, evaluationfunders would help to advance the meaningful- ness and social value of outcome studies.

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  • Eva Lantos Rezmovic, 1984. "Assessing Treatment Implementation Amid the Slings and Arrows of Reality," Evaluation Review, , vol. 8(2), pages 187-204, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:8:y:1984:i:2:p:187-204
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8400800203
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    1. Stahler, Gerald J., 1995. "Improving the quality of evaluations of federal human services national demonstration programs," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 129-141.

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