Cost-Inclusive Evaluation

Planning It, Doing It, Using It

GUILFORD PUBLICATIONSISBN: 9781462551255

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By Nadini Persaud, Brian T. Yates
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THE GUILFORD PRESS
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HARDBACK
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252

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Nadini Persaud, PhD, CPA, CGA, is a tenured Lecturer in Evaluation in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She teaches primarily at the graduate level and has served as Coordinator of the Master of Science Program in Project Management and Evaluation. The recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, Dr. Persaud is an Advisory Council member for the Barbados Chapter of Chartered Professional Accountants Canada and a board member of the American Evaluation Association, Caribbean Evaluators International, and the Faster Forward Fund. Her research focuses on blending the tools of project management and accounting to improve the practice of professional evaluation. Dr. Persaud has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books, and has presented over 20 conference papers on the importance of cost analysis in program evaluation. Brian T. Yates, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychology at American University in Washington, DC. Working with colleagues in his Program Evaluation Research Lab (PERL) and other universities, Dr. Yates has applied his resources-activities-processes-outcomes (RAPO) model to measure and improve costs, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility of diverse health and human services and their accreditation processes. He has published 93 articles and book chapters, and 5 books, and authored a manual on cost accounting published by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. At American University, Dr. Yates developed the Master's Program in General Psychology and served as Acting Chair of the Department of Psychology and as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has served as board member and treasurer of the American Evaluation Association.

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