Thinking about evaluation: The present status of evaluation research -- Evaluation and society -- Policy relevant social research -- Evaluation methodology and data integration: Regression and selection models to improve nonexperimental comparisons -- The priority score allocation design -- Focal local indicators for social program evaluation -- Determining an optimum level of statistical significance -- Distributing federal education aid to low achievement pupils -- Cui bono? measuring income-redistribution effects of capital projects -- Accumulating evidence -- Confidentiality-preserving modes of access to files -- Evaluation into policy: Conceptualizing inequality -- Evaluation in education: The white flight debate -- Another hour, another day: quantity of schooling -- Use of normative peer data -- The development of institutions of higher education -- Studies in crime and justice: The explosion in police diversion programs -- The neutralization of severe penalties -- Sentencing councils -- Studies in human services: health and labor: Monitoring and analysis of mental health program outcome data -- Relations between nutrition and cognition in rural Guatemala -- The impact of employment and training programs -- The comprehensive employment and training act

1. Evaluative Research