Program Evaluation

David Royse is the Joanne I. Bell Professor of Social Policy and Critical Thinking in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Royse has an extensive publication record with his work appearing in Children and Youth Services Review, Child Abuse & Neglect, Social Work in Health Care, and Journal of Public Child Welfare, among others. He is the author of several methodology books for social workers, including Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-based Approach with Bruce Thyer and Deborah Padgett, as well as Child Welfare and Child Protection with Austin Griffiths (Cognella).

"Professor David Royse, one influential author in social work research methods in recent decades, has released a new textbook on program evaluation. Both teaching and learning research methods, particularly program evaluation in social work, have always been challenging (if not nightmarish) for social work teachers and students, and Royse is well aware of that. In the introduction of this book, he makes it clear that this is not a book trying to provide everything in a single text. Instead, it is an easy-to-understand and student-friendly guidebook of evaluation practices supported by real-life case scenarios....I am thankful to Royse for continuing the difficult task of producing readable textbooks for guiding novice or seasoned social work educators to design new research courses or revise the content of existing courses for students." Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung in the journal Research on Social Work Practice