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Evaluating Programs on Drug and Alcohol Related Problems
Author(s) -
Rotem Arie,
Irvine Susan
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian alcohol/drug review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0726-4550
DOI - 10.1080/09595238580000281
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , causality (physics) , dependency (uml) , field (mathematics) , management science , measure (data warehouse) , risk analysis (engineering) , data science , artificial intelligence , data mining , engineering , mathematics , programming language , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Program evaluation is concerned with the systematic gathering and interpretation of information about a program to enable decisions about its development to be made on a rational basis. It is a distinct activity from research and does not attempt to generate new knowledge or to prove causality. It emphasises the need to assess problems that are important to solve rather than the ones that are just easy to measure precisely. In this review the principles of program evaluation are outlined and relevant examples to the dependency field are given.