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Conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation: Developing a cost analysis tool for practical program evaluation.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation: Developing a cost analysis tool for practical program evaluation./
Author:	Persaud, Nadini.
Description:	329 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael Scriven.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Business Administration, Accounting. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3276414
ISBN:	9780549186977

Conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation: Developing a cost analysis tool for practical program evaluation.
Persaud, Nadini.

Conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation: Developing a cost analysis tool for practical program evaluation. - 329 p.

Adviser: Michael Scriven.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Western Michigan University, 2007.

Cost-effectiveness, cost-feasibility and comparative superiority are important cost issues that need to be addressed in ex-ante, in medias res, and ex-post evaluations. A review of the evaluation literature, however, indicates that cost analysis is not always done---and when it is done, it frequently is not done well. This partly may be a result of its complexity, coupled with the fact that many evaluators do not possess the requisite skills to conduct cost analysis. This research developed a tool to simplify the procedures for conducting comprehensive cost analysis in program evaluation. In developing this tool, the conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation were analyzed in detail. Scriven's (1991) Cost Cube that was illustrated by E. Jane Davidson (2003) was also redesigned to make it more applicable to the Cost Analysis Checklist tool. The modified model is referred to as the Costs Identification Model. A Benefits Identification Model was also developed to facilitate benefits identification. In developing the tool, special care was taken to ensure that the tool is user-friendly for noneconomists. The targeted audience for this tool is new evaluators and evaluation students.

ISBN: 9780549186977Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020666
Business Administration, Accounting.

Conceptual and practical analysis of costs and benefits in evaluation: Developing a cost analysis tool for practical program evaluation.
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