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Evaluating home visitation: A case study of evaluation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Author(s) -
Sherwood Kay E.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.144
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , program evaluation , evaluation methods , psychology , library science , management , computer science , political science , engineering , law , public administration , economics , reliability engineering
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation employed an evaluation‐focused grant‐making strategy over more than a decade in a particular child development service area, the home visitation approach, that illustrates, among other lessons, the management of disappointing evaluation results.