TY - JOUR
T1 - Goal focused evaluation:Lessons from a study of a shelter for homeless youth
AU - Peled, Einat
AU - Spiro, Shimon E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation to ZV. AJ was supported by the Israeli Ministry for Absorption in Science. We acknowledge the support of the NINDS Informatics Center for Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics (P30 NS062691) to GC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effectiveness is often best achieved by identifying both types of goals and possible gaps between them, thus enabling organizational stakeholders to refocus program goals, rechannel resources and, if desired, contract a second stage evaluation of the newly reshaped goals. The article examines the processes, benefits and limitations of a Goal Focused approach to the evaluation of social programs, as it was applied in a study of a shelter for homeless youth in Tel Aviv.
AB - This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effectiveness is often best achieved by identifying both types of goals and possible gaps between them, thus enabling organizational stakeholders to refocus program goals, rechannel resources and, if desired, contract a second stage evaluation of the newly reshaped goals. The article examines the processes, benefits and limitations of a Goal Focused approach to the evaluation of social programs, as it was applied in a study of a shelter for homeless youth in Tel Aviv.
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U2 - 10.1177/13563899822208725
DO - 10.1177/13563899822208725
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AN - SCOPUS:33645116528
VL - 4
SP - 455
EP - 468
JO - Evaluation
JF - Evaluation
SN - 1356-3890
IS - 4
ER -