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Teaching Policy Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

Stuart S. Nagel
Stuart S. Nagel*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana
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An instructor needs to resolve several issues in teaching a course on policy evaluation. Those issues include matters of course content such as what books to use, what evaluation methods to present, the role of statistical analysis in determining relations, the role of legal analysis in determining values, the role of political and administrative feasibility, and how to combine policy analysis and program evaluation.

Back in 1958, the economist Roland McKean, working for the Rand Corporation, wrote a book entitled Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis: With Emphasis on Water Resources Development (Wiley, 1958). That may have been the first book that attempted to provide a survey, of methods involved in systematically evaluating alternative public policies, although only the first 100 pages are general in nature.

Type
Research Article
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News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 33 , Spring 1982 , pp. 5 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1982

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1. For other viewpoints on and aspects of teaching policy evaluation and other policy studies teaching matters, see Coplin, William (ed.), Teaching Policy Studies; What and How (Lexington-Heath, 1978)Google Scholar; Dror, Yehezkel (ed.), Universities and the Teaching of Policy Science (Special issues of Policy Science, December, 1970, and March 1970)Google Scholar; Weiner, Harry (ed.), Education for the Public Service (Special Issue of Urban Analysis, 1976)Google Scholar; and Nagel, S. and Neef, M. (eds.), Policy Studies Directory (Policy Studies Organization, 1976)Google Scholar. On teaching public administration, see Birkhead, Guthrie and Carroll, James (eds.), Education for Public Service (Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1979)Google Scholar; and Lantrip, Jennifer (ed.), Teaching Public Administration in the United States (Commonwealth University, Virginia, 1978)Google Scholar. On teaching political science, see back issues of the APSA-DEA News and the journal Teaching Political Science. On college teaching in general, see Milton, Ohmer (ed), On College Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 1978)Google Scholar; and Lee, Calvin (ed.), Improving College Teachings (American Council on Education, 1967).CrossRefGoogle Scholar