Evaluation and Program Planning

Papers
(The median citation count of Evaluation and Program Planning is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Exploring the value of pro bono evaluation work as a method to build evaluator competencies and strengthen organizational capacity42
Arts-based evaluation of the Communities ChooseWell program42
Challenges for contactless online food delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: Moderating effects of perceived government response37
What makes community sports programs successful? A group concept mapping study to identify effective elements33
Organizational change and evidence-based practices in support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities32
No one runs alone: Combining community-based program evaluation with photo elicitation interviewing among people experiencing homelessness28
Active ingredients in implicit racial bias training: Incorporating participant voice to promote engagement28
Teaching competence of TVET teachers in the digital age: Implementation and evaluation of a training program in China25
Does evaluation quality matter? Quantitative analysis of the use of evaluation findings in the field of cohesion policy in Poland24
Beyond implementation: A collective case study exploring the conceptions and facilitators of sustainability in a quality improvement collaborative24
Evaluation of a COVID-19 rapid antigen testing program among student athletes in a public high school district24
Effectiveness of the KiVa anti-bullying program in the Czech Republic: A cluster randomized control trial22
Development, implementation and evaluation of an optimized cross-sectoral rehabilitation program after acute hip fracture surgery: A mixed-methods study22
Evaluation of public private partnerships in highways22
Investigating the relationship between participation in the building infrastructure leading to diversity (BUILD) initiative and intent to pursue a science career: A cross-sectional analysis21
Exploring the relationship between poverty dimensions and social exclusion in university students20
Transportation needs and mobility patterns of persons experiencing homelessness following shelter decentralization19
Increasing research capacity in community organizations: Findings from the Community Research Scholars Initiative18
Unveiling the link between performance and Intellectual Capital disclosure in the context of Italian Public universities18
Why and how to use the quality of life as an evaluation criterion?18
A comprehensive bibliometric study of the balanced scorecard17
Equity-related ‘knots’ in theory of change development: Conceptualization and case illustrations16
Breaking barriers and building bridges: Increasing community engagement in program evaluation15
Using integrated data to examine the effects of summer youth employment program completion on educational and criminal justice system outcomes: Evidence from Cuyahoga County, Ohio15
Evaluating quality improvement at scale: A pilot study on routine reporting for executive board governance in a UK National Health Service organisation15
Development of an intervention programme theory to increase movement in care homes for people with cognitive impairment: Care homes achieving realistic movement strategies (CHARMS)14
A program evaluation of the new choices workforce development program: An appreciative inquiry approach14
Benefits of participation in a community of practice focused on evaluation and programmatic improvement for environmental educators13
Capitalization of experience of physical activity resumption programs: Lessons learned for adherence and post-program referral13
Teachers’ teaching and professional competences assessment13
Using predicted marginal effects to assess the impact of rurality and free and reduced lunch eligibility on a school-based nutrition intervention13
Partnership evaluation: An application of a developmental framework to the Governance and Local Development project in Senegal13
Implementation and evaluation of patient navigation in Chicago: Insights on addressing the social determinants of health and integrating HIV prevention and care services13
Option or necessity: Role of environmental education as transformative change agent13
Challenges and successes to the implementation of a zoo conservation-education program12
Conditional selection of multifactor evidence for the levels of anaemia among women of reproductive age group12
Understanding community health workers’ activities in a community-based child health promotion project in Kyrgyzstan12
Predictors of homeless service utilization and stable housing status among Veterans receiving services from a nationwide homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing program12
Ensuring the “health” of a curricular program evaluation: Alignment and analytic quality of two instruments for use in evaluating the effectiveness of an interprofessional collaboration curriculum12
Facilitating the planning and evaluation of narrative intervention reviews: Systematic Transparency Assessment in Intervention Reviews (STAIR)12
Introducing a multicomponent staff training intervention to reduce antipsychotic medication: Care home management pre and post intervention views of systemic impact, and preliminary RE-AIM evaluation12
The Problems (and possible solutions) of assessing risk, race and recidivism in long operating drug treatment courts12
Evaluation in design science: A framework to support project studies in the context of University Research Centres12
Editorial Board11
Training effectiveness evaluation: Advancing a Kirkpatrick model based composite framework11
Editorial Board11
Development and evaluation of an online vocational program for veterans with legal convictions and psychiatric illness11
Impact of contextual factors on the evaluation outcomes of national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects in biology and medicine11
Formative evaluation of a STEAM and nutrition education summer program for low-income youth11
Analysing the importance of e-government in times of disruption: The case of public education in Rwanda during Covid-19 lockdown11
Evaluation capacity building in response to the agricultural research impact agenda: Emerging insights from Ireland, Catalonia (Spain), New Zealand, and Uruguay11
A framework for using real-time evaluative interview feedback for health promotion program and evaluation improvement: The Check It case study10
Methodological choices for an economic evaluation of a combined psychosocial and nutrition treatment intervention for children with severe acute malnutrition: The FUSAM trial in Nepal10
Evaluating the effects of Cannabis reform on human security: A comparative case study of Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines10
Process evaluation and challenges in collecting data from an after-school sports and literacy program in a diverse, low-income community10
Designing and evaluating complex educational research to meet federal grant requirement: A demonstration of a funded large-scale protocol10
Evaluation of eHealth assistance in-hospital care for improved quality of life in patients10
Outcome evaluation of WASH intervention in rural households at Jawi district, Northwest Ethiopia: Mixed method design, goal based evaluation10
Evaluation of cacao projects in Colombia: The case of the rural Productive Partnerships Project (PAAP)10
Evaluating the performance of Tunisian higher Institutes of Technological Studies (ISETs) using a stochastic frontier analysis10
Creating a developmental framework for evaluating RRI implementation in research organisations9
Sport federation investment in health promotion: The healthy club project implementation9
Following the science to understand how to reduce prejudice and its harmful consequences: A guide for evaluators and program planners9
Reaching racial/ethnic and sexual and gender minorities with HIV prevention information via social marketing9
Toward collaborative cost-inclusive evaluation: Adaptations and transformations for evaluators and economists9
Using grounded theory to develop a theory of change for a violence intervention program9
Public healthcare efficiency in India: Estimates and determinants using two stage DEA approach9
Editorial Board9
How does ReDO®-10 work? Understanding the mechanisms of action of an intervention focused on daily activities and health from the perspective of participants9
Use of outcome harvesting to understand the outcomes of a COVID-19 pandemic leadership and management program in six countries9
Comprehensive risk assessment for identifying suitable residential zones in Manavgat, Mediterranean Region9
Surfacing, as well as testing, “elliptical assumptions” in a theory of change: Principled discovery9
Quality of life: A way to buttress crisis program evaluations?8
Editorial Board8
WITHDRAWN: Preparing future teachers for early adaptation of junior schoolchildren to future professional choices8
Planning traffic surveillance in Spain: How to optimize the management of police resources to reduce road fatalities8
Participation among tribal youths of India in vocational training measures: A systematic review of literature8
Tools and methods for evaluating the change to health service delivery due to pandemics or other similar emergencies: A rapid evidence review8
Editorial8
Protocol for a process evaluation of SCALA study – Intervention targeting scaling up of primary health care-based prevention and management of heavy drinking and comorbid depression in Latin America8
Using personal network analysis to understand the interaction between programmes’ facilitators and teachers in psychoeducational interventions8
Evaluation of circular business model: Theory of Change approach8
The Music Engagement Program for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia: Pilot feasibility trial outcomes8
Beyond financial proxies in Cohesion Policy inputs’ monitoring: A system dynamics approach8
How enabling factors determine unmet healthcare needs? A panel data approach for countries8
Advancing methods for program evaluation in substance use by strengthening the application of epidemiology, economic evaluation, and implementation science: Reflections on the opportunities for synerg8
Evaluation of primary-level credit environment, indicator system and empirical analysis: A case study of credit construction in China county and district8
Exploring data use in nonprofit organizations8
Evaluating and sustaining Coordinated Specialty Care for a recent onset of psychosis in non-academic-affiliated community mental healthcare settings7
Does foreign aid affect innovation and institutional quality in middle-income countries?7
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions7
Barriers to child nutrition in Bengaluru slums: Caregiver insights from the SCOPE strategy7
Implementation and evaluation of tourism industry: Evidentiary case study of night market development in Taiwan7
A comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for evidence to policy networks7
Bridging the gap between wellbeing and evaluation: Lessons from IBEST, a French experience7
Effectiveness of emergency food assistance programs during COVID-19 at Union Parishad: Mediating role of political neutrality7
Simple but not simplistic: Findings from a theory-driven retrospective evaluation of a small projects program7
Strategies used throughout the scaling-up process of eConsult – Multiple case study of four Canadian Provinces7
The psychology of evaluation7
Evaluating the design and implementation of Kazakhstan’s workfare program7
Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system7
Evaluating for health equity among a cluster of health departments implementing PrEP services6
Editorial Board6
Applying DEMATEL-ANP approach to explore the intention to hold roadside wedding banquets in Penghu: A consumers’ perspective6
Comprehensive evaluation of majors offered by universities based on combination weighting6
From projects to systems: Being explicit about assumptions in systems-level theories of change6
An evaluation of a 9th and 10th grade Native American virtual pilot: Utilizing a culturally responsive and Inclusive Science model6
Evaluating a community based mental health programme in West Bengal, India: Description of the methodology and lessons learned6
What does it mean for an evaluation to be ‘valid’? A critical synthesis of evaluation literature6
Using the science of positive psychology in the formative evaluation of social justice interventions: A case example6
The effect of ChatGPT on the development of medical waste attitudes, behaviors, and environmental awareness among university students: A quasi-experimental study6
Street Doctors Northern Ireland: A mixed-method process and impact evaluation of a youth violence reduction intervention6
Anchoring UNICEF’s evaluation function in East Asia and the Pacific6
A dynamic framework for making sense of partnerships between universities and informal education providers6
The Role of Pre-Service Education and School Climate on Teacher Identity: Evidence from a Developing Country6
Editorial Board6
A study of preservice teachers’ digital competence development: Exploring the role of direct instruction, integrated practice, and modeling6
A problem-bound evaluation approach6
Technical efficiency in Chile’s higher education system: A comparison of rankings and accreditation6
Are the voices of parents heard? A scoping review of satisfaction in parenting programs6
Monitoring unplanned sexual health curricula adaptations: Using results to improve fidelity and support implementation6
Building capacity to create community change (BC4): A model to support successful program planning and implementation6
The importance of administrative data in the evaluation of the incidence of social housing allowance programmes6
Bridging the gaps in sustainability assessment: A systematic literature review, 2014–20236
Policy evaluations of microenterprise business support services in Latin America: A systematic review6
Evaluating facilitators’ challenges administering a program building on existing strengths in families facing difficulties6
Impact of a monitoring and evaluation training in 3 PEPFAR-supported countries6
Evidence-based practice criteria’s effect on the implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act in Nebraska and Colorado6
The relationship between buy-in and implementation: Measuring teacher buy-in to a high school reform effort6
A comparison of costs of two forms of educator professional development in Wyoming: Traditional conference vs. project ECHO6
A study to determine if and how bereavement support programs provided by Irish and Canadian hospices are evaluated6
“I had a spider in my mouth”: What makes students happy in outdoor environmental education programs6
Understanding implementation strategies to support classroom-based physical activity approaches in elementary schools: A qualitative study5
Characteristics of transformational leadership development programs: A scoping review5
Designing a questionnaire with retrospective pre-post items: Format matters5
Development of a capability maturity model for the establishment of children’s nursing training programmes in southern and eastern Africa5
UPSTREAM! Together evaluation results from community efforts to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems5
Assumptions in theories of change5
Expanding the repertoire of evaluation tools so that evaluation recommendations can assist nonprofits to enhance strategic planning and design of program operations5
Alliance-building for equity and justice: An inter-organizational perspective5
A mixed-methods evaluation of the Caregiving Essentials Course for unpaid caregivers of older adults in Canada5
Program evaluation of trauma-informed yoga for vulnerable populations5
A process and impact evaluation of a peer-led HIV self-management program5
Engaging stakeholders to retrospectively discern implementation strategies to support program evaluation: Proposed method and case study5
Characteristics of mandates for evidence-based behavioral health interventions in 8 selected US states5
Exploring an SEL program’s effects on student attendance and academic learning5
The utility of evaluation in optimizing implementation and improvement of HIV prevention programming5
Perceptions of evaluator professional autonomy in North American evaluation practice5
Aid and forgetting the enemy: A systematic review of the unintended consequences of international development in fragile and conflict-affected situations5
Empowering underprivileged students beyond financial aid: Insights from a scholarship program's monitoring and evaluation5
Informing the future of PrEP navigation: Findings from a five-site cluster evaluation5
Editorial Board5
Exploring the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention in university students: MindKinder adult version program (MK-A)5
Using Intervention Mapping to co-design a psychosocial service with youth experiencing mental illness5
Appreciative inquiry and the co-creation of an evaluation framework for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) implementation: a two-country experience5
Carrot and stick: Economic support and stringency policies in response to COVID-194
Valuing adaptive programming: A study of resilience processes and outcomes4
Impact of social media-based intervention in reducing youths’ propensity to engage in drug abuse in Nigeria4
Experiences in the application of logic models in the context of workplace health promotion – A focus group discussion4
Effectiveness of the Netherlands’ pyramid method in the Turkish context4
Introduction to the special issue on evaluator education4
Using participatory system dynamics learning to support Ryan White Planning Council priority setting and resource allocations4
What counts? The critical role of qualitative data in teachers’ decision making4
Developing health sector websites assessment instrument: Challenges and pitfalls4
Cognitive complexity of evaluator competencies4
Retrospective review of a carer-employee workplace intervention4
Performance management and policy evaluation of information and communication technology graduate program for developing countries4
The theory of change and realistic evaluation applied to the evaluation of a transport intervention: The case of the Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy4
Achieving a caregiver-friendly workplace standard for Canadian carer-workers: An ex ante evaluation of potential uptake4
Blood bank programs and transfusion sustainability. A serial mediating model4
PrEP navigation continuum among men who have sex with men, trans women, and people with alternative gender identities in three California counties4
Inequity, inequality, and language rights in English as a medium of instruction programs4
Testing a community developed training protocol for an evidence-based treatment4
Protocol for an interview-based method for mapping mental models using causal-loop diagramming and realist interviewing4
The criticality of language: Exploring STEM education evaluators conceptualizations of equity, diversity, and inclusion and the influence on their roles and practice4
Evaluating e-governance through e-government: Practices and challenges of assessing the digitalisation of public governmental services4
An evaluation framework for low performers and human resource management planning: Application to a life insurance company in Korea4
Program development for leaders in the post-truth era: Arts-based creative leadership communication program4
Measuring the efficiency of Turkish maternal and child health hospitals: A two-stage data envelopment analysis4
Anticipatory evaluation. How to incorporate an anticipatory technique into a theory-driven evaluation process. Results of application in a case study.3
Gender biases in the evaluation of knowledge transfer: A meta-evaluative analysis of the Spanish “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Sexennium”3
Congregational health needs by key demographic variables: Findings from a congregational health needs assessment tool3
Use of research evidence in U.S. federal policymaking: A reflexive report on intra-stage mixed methods3
Health gap closing function of a green behavioral activity system from the perspective of economic and social capital: A case study of sports governance and operation systems3
Effectiveness of portfolio assessment in primary education: A multi-complementary research approach3
Learning from educators: Implementation of a positive behavior support program targeting challenging behavior in children with autism3
Impact of customised community training program on the prevention and control of dengue fever: A study from India3
Perspectives from diverse stakeholders in a youth community-based participatory research project3
From pipeline to practice: Utilizing tracking mechanisms for longitudinal evaluation of physician recruitment across the health workforce continuum3
A pilot evaluation of the Food as Medicine program for patients with type 2 diabetes3
Using theory knitting to conceptualize social phenomena in the design and evaluation of dance programs for people living with Parkinson’s disease3
Developing evaluation measures for health departments sharing and linking HIV and STI surveillance data3
How practitioner, organisational and system-level factors act to influence health promotion evaluation capacity: Validation of a conceptual framework3
How and why are Theory of Change and Realist Evaluation used in food security contexts? A scoping review3
Lessons learned from implementing the parenting Program P in Bolivia to prevent family violence3
Co-constructing educational innovations for an uncertain future: Design thinking and developmental evaluation in the school reform process3
Methods in realist evaluation: A mapping review3
The effect of medicaid expansion on access to healthcare, health behaviors and health outcomes between expansion and non-expansion states3
If you really love nothing. Evaluating second-order factors in the case of Italian constitutional referendum of 20203
Case study in using value stream mapping in online graduate education3
Evaluating the efficiency of online course resource allocation in universities of China3
Research into microfinance and ICTs: A bibliometric analysis3
HIV PrEP implementation: A multi-level systems approach3
Educational intervention for the control of Aedes aegypti with Wolbachia in Yucatan, Mexico3
Editorial Board3
Implementation process evaluation of an ergonomic train the trainer program: How to learn from mechanisms and the temporal structure of processes?3
LEADER local action groups and inner areas. An Italian case study3
Emerging virtual reality technologies and opportunities for public health programming3
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Implementing and evaluating a peer-coached EFL teacher professional development program3
Program logic of a mental health outreach service for socially anxious youth3
Resolving the practical factors in the healthcare system management by considering a combine approach of AHP and ANP methods3
Adapting social and financial education for adolescents in Zimbabwe: A qualitative study of the Aflateen+ program3
Editorial Board3
Investments in research infrastructure on the project level: Problems, methods and mechanisms2
Modeling a needs assessment approach for policymakers to investigate, understand, and reduce gun violence2
Long-term impact evaluation of early childhood conditions When only short-term outcomes are available2
Exercise is Medicine® Canada on Campus Casebook: Evaluation of a novel knowledge translation tool and lessons learned2
Opioid overdose prevention training needs: Findings from emergency medical services providers in Baltimore County, Maryland2
Towards transparent decision-making processes within museums: Case study of Museu Nacional d′Art de Catalunya (MNAC)2
Culturally responsive evaluation: A scoping review of the evaluation literature2
Evaluation as a moral practice: The case of virtue ethics2
Technical efficiency and its determinants in healthcare systems of underdeveloped countries2
Learning from graduate students’ non-formal evaluation experiences in university-based centers2
'Quality of life' concept in Cohesion Policy evaluation in Poland, 2004–20202
What key conditions and mechanisms generate health inequalities research in different contexts? Study protocol for two realist explanatory case studies2
To scope or not to scope? The benefits and challenges of integrating scoping studies in rapid qualitative research and evaluation2
From scores to strategy: Performance-based transportation planning in Texas2
Characteristics of sustainability: A complexity-based view to inform evaluation2
Does that extra email make a difference? Using early-semester targeted outreach to increase academic advising visits2
Identifying best practices in a process evaluation of a novice driver education program2
Evaluating the effect of settlement services in South Korea: Focused on Korea Immigration & Integration Program2
NYC RxStat: Stakeholder perspectives on a national model public health and public safety partnership to reduce overdose deaths2
Theory of change models deepen online learning evaluation2
Inter-rater agreement of scores to assess quality of care in public sector primary health care facilities – A pattern of performance2
Evaluation of New York/New York III permanent supportive housing program2
The voices of children, mothers, and fathers: Can parenting programs improve reunification processes in the Spanish child protection system?2
Editorial Board2
Key insights on multisector community partnerships from real-world efforts to address social determinants of health2
Editorial Board2
Doing better in theory-based evaluation, from A to Z2
Juggling with theory, evidence, practice, and real-world circumstances: Development of a complex community intervention to increase physical activity in inactive adults aged 50 years and older – The M2
Consequences of survey modification in a program evaluation: An exploratory research on evaluation study2
The promotion strategies and dynamic evaluation model of exhibition-driven sustainable tourism based on previous/prospective tourist satisfaction after COVID-192
Development and evaluation of a fidelity tool in a post-discharge responsive parenting intervention program for very preterm born children2
Focus Forward Fellowship: Evaluation of a program for women student service members and veterans2
Sustaining health obesity prevention programs: Lessons from real-world population settings2
Acceptability of a behaviour change intervention aimed at increasing the use of a reusable hot drink cup2
Evaluation of the public policy impacts on Monkeypox in Brazil2
Evaluation of a systems-level technical assistance program to support youth with complex behavioral health needs2
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