Reports on Topic Areas

Alkin, Marv [ed.] (1985) Evaluation Reflections. Transcript of the Malibu Conference on the State-of-the-Art in Evaluation Utilization. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation.

Alkin, Marv (1987a) "EOPS operational program review." Presented at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association , Boston, October.

Alkin, Marv (1987b) "Utilizing evaluations." Presented at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association, Boston, October.

Cooley, William and William Bickel (1986) Decision-Oriented Educational Research. Boston: Kluwer Nijhoff.

Datta, Lois-Ellin (1987) "Utilizing evaluation: the case of GAO." Presented at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association , Boston, October.

Etheredge, Lloyd S. (1979) "Government learning: an overview," in S. Long (ed.) Handbook of Political Behavior . New York: Plenum. (pages cited in text refer to prepublication monograph)

Patton, Michael Q. (1986) Utilization-Focused Evaluation (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage .

Patton, Michael Q. (1987) Creative Evaluation (revised ed.) Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Sonnichsen, Richard C. (1987) "Advocacy evaluation: a strategy for organizational improvement." Presented at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association, Boston, October. (forthcoming in Evaluation and Program Planning)

Steele, Fritz (1975) Consulting for Organizational Change. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press.

Velasquez, Joan (1987) "Managing evaluation systems over the long haul ." Presented at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association, Boston, October.

Weiss, Carol H. (1987) "Evaluation for decisions: Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" Plenary presentation at the meetings of the American Evaluation Association, Boston, October 16.

Ziglar, Zig (1987) "Closing skills." Personal Selling Power 7 (July/August): 6.