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Comments on Randall Brown's Paper, "The Evolving Art of Program Evaluation," on the Occasion of Brown Receiving the Peter Rossi Award From APPAM, November 12, 2020.
At a 1986 conference about the Income Maintenance Experiments, Robert Solow commented, “Suppose society wants to do something that is the right thing to do...There will sometimes be economical doubts, worries that doing the right thing might be unsuspectedly costly. Awell-designed experiment can help find out, and the prevalence of weak results is not an obstacle” (Solow, 1986, p. 222). Randall Brown instilled that point in the various evaluations he led. As a result, his contributions to evaluation research have had significant impacts on policies affecting the 40% of Americans covered by Medicare or
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Evaluation Review is the forum for researchers, planners, and policy makers engaged in the development, implementation, and utilization of studies aimed at the betterment of the human condition. The Editors invite submission of papers reporting the findings of evaluation studies in such fields as child development, health, education, income security, manpower, mental health, criminal justice, and the physical and social environments. In addition, Evaluation Review will contain articles on methodological developments, discussions of the state of the art, and commentaries on issues related to the application of research results. Special features will include periodic review essays, "research briefs", and "craft reports".