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Guidebook: Evaluating Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Investigators:
The Guidebook--written for pracitioners, developed
by practitioners.
Under the sponsorship
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Sociometrics
has developed a comprehensive guide to the implementation of
evaluation methods into all aspects of teen pregnancy programming.
Although many program evaluation textbooks and guides focus primarily
on the evaluation of service outcome, the Sociometrics Guidebook:
Evaluating Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs instructs users
on how to benefit from program evaluation methods at all stages
of program development and evaluation: from initial conceptualization
and model implementation to program monitoring and full impact
evaluation.
The CDC sponsored a field test designed to gather feedback on
the quality and utility of the Guidebook from professional adolescent
pregnancy prevention practitioners across the nation. Results
of the field test of the Guidebook demonstrate the overwhelmingly
positive reception of this resource by this sample of professional
practitioners. Data consistently support the evaluation of the
Guidebook as a high quality, useful tool for prevention programs
working to address adolescent pregnancy and parenting in their
communities. Data also suggest that the Guidebook was used by
the field test sites to plan and/or initiate significant programmatic
improvement efforts.
