Social network analysis (SNA) is becoming a prevalent method in education research and
practice. But criticism has been voiced against the heavy reliance on quantification within …

Collaboration is a widely utilized strategy for addressing complex social issues and for
facilitating organizational innovation and performance. Evaluators are uniquely positioned to …

An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research by Elizabeth G. Creamer
provides the tools needed to design, execute, and evaluate fully integrated mixed methods …

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting
social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book …

Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single
interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is …

Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program
evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has …

Although collaboration is recognized as an effective means to address multifaceted
community issues, successful collaboration is difficult to achieve and failure is prevalent. To …

We welcome this opportunity to revisit “Measuring Tie Strength”(Marsden an d Campbell
1984) in light of more recent social network studies. When we wrote our article, the field of …

A general interest in the study of social practices has been spreading across a diversity of
disciplines in organization and management research, relying mostly on rich ethnographic …

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis
and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring …