Evaluation: A Systematic Approach

The book was super important for this Spring class I'm taking and I had ordered it late. Despite that fact, it came on time. I was very impressed!

The book was good quality. It was shipped in a thin plastic bag and bent a little during shipping. Would prefer for it to be in a box.

Book is helpful for my online course. Just wish it was cheaper given its a digital rental.

I used it for school and my professor made us go through the entire book

The new edition is just as good!

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Perfect

As a student required to purchase this book for a class, I was dismayed at the high price tag for a paperback textbook ($85 pre-tax). The publishers have also made the electronic version of the book so expensive and frustrating to use that I opted to pay just a bit more for this paperback version. My copy of this book also arrived with ink that was missing or smudged on a few of the pages. In terms of content, this book does seem to offer a comprehensive introduction to program evaluation. It would probably be useful to have as a reference for someone practicing as an evaluator. However, for social scientists, it's worth knowing that Rossi et al. present an approach to evaluation that leans toward positivism and aims to be highly "objective." I personally would have preferred a less positivist approach to this topic. In the end, I am unsure whether I'll keep this as a reference because I found the text itself to be pretty densely written.