introduction. the present study was designed to assess the effect of continuous evaluation and education in usage of standard rules in midwifery office in shiraz. methods. this was an interventional (quasi experimental) study. all midwifery offices (50 units) in shiraz were evaluated by technicians from control and evaluation health office of vice chancellor for clinical and drug affairs. in th...

Blending high-quality and rigorous research with pure evaluation practice can often be best accomplished through thoughtful collaboration. The evaluation of a high school drug prevention program (All Stars Senior) is an example of how perceived competing purposes and methodologies can coexist to investigate formative and summative outcome variables that can be used for program improvement. Thro...

ABBREVIATIONS ADB — Asian Development Bank CAP — country assistance program CAPE — country assistance program evaluation CSP — country strategy and program DEC — Development Effectiveness Committee DG — director general DMC — developing member country DP — development partner EA — Executing Agency MDB — multilateral development bank MDG — Millennium Development Goal NGO — nongovernment organiza...

Developing a performance-based advancement system requires evaluation tools that capture essential behaviors and outcomes reflective of key nursing functions. To ensure relevance to clinical practice and enhance buy-in from nursing staff, the behaviors and outcomes were defined by a broad cross-section of nursing staff and administrators. The first article (September 2003) in this 3-part series...

Impact evaluation is an indispensable tool to assess whether a program is achieving its objective, how the beneficiaries’ situation changed as a result of the program and what the situation would have been without the program. Moreover, if an impact evaluation is carried out at an intermediate stage of project execution, very important lessons can be learned on how the program design and/or the...

Between 1999 and 2002, the Australian Youth Research Centre carried out an evaluation of the Student Action Teams program of the Victorian Department of Education and Training. In the Phase 2 evaluation, the Centre examined program outcomes in terms of student perceptions of connectedness to school, to teachers, and to other students, and linked these with student perceptions of program feature...

The National Diabetes Education Program, cosponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, employs mass media communications, public-private partnerships, and dissemination of information and education tools to address the diabetes epidemic in the United States. The program's goal is to help reduce the morbidity and mortality from diabetes and ...

The new generation of "partnership-based" technology initiatives, including the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, invariably involve a variety of stakeholder groups, including: federal and state-level sponsors, local institutions and their program staff, and customers. Since each group tends to have different information needs, the ideal evaluation should incorporate diverse evaluati...

background: governance is one of the main functions of health research system (hrs) that consist of four essential elements such as setting up evaluation system. the goal of this study was to introduce a new web based research evaluation model in iran. methods: based on main elements of governance, research indicators have been clarified and with cooperation of technical team, appropriate softw...