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Overview

Melvin M. Mark is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Decision Sciences and Health Professions, with a total of 13 publications in Decision Sciences and 8 in Health Professions. Within these broader fields, their subfield contributions include Management Science and Operations Research, General Health Professions, Information Systems and Management, Education, and Public Administration.

The main topics addressed in Melvin M. Mark's work cover Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Health Policy Implementation Science, Educational Assessment and Improvement, Community Health and Development, Public Policy and Administration Research, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, and School Choice and Performance.

Key recent papers authored by Melvin M. Mark include:

  • Adding Adaptation/Modification Size and Scope to Frameworks for Classifying Changes to an Intervention, 2021, Prevention Science
  • Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation: Does it Affect Observers' Perceptions of an Evaluation? And Which Stakeholder Group(s) Do People Think Should to Participate?, 2021, Evaluation Review
  • Engaging With Program Adaptations in Evaluation: A Range of Existing Options and a New Opportunity, 2021, American Journal of Evaluation
  • Surfacing, as well as testing, "elliptical assumptions" in a theory of change: Principled discovery, 2023, Evaluation and Program Planning
  • The future of evaluation policy, 2022, New Directions for Evaluation

Melvin M. Mark has published frequently in several venues, notably:

  • American Journal of Evaluation (5 publications)
  • Evaluation and Program Planning (2 publications)
  • New Directions for Evaluation (2 publications)
  • Prevention Science (1 publication)
  • Evaluation Review (1 publication)

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Nicholas R. Hart, Valerie J. Caracelli, Robin Lin Miller, Julian B. Allen, and Joshuah L. Goodwin.

Melvin M. Mark's work is positioned at the intersection of evaluation methodologies and applied health and education research. Their contributions to evaluation science encompass frameworks for intervention adaptations, stakeholder involvement in evaluation processes, and theory of change development, among other topics. The scientist's multidisciplinary approach integrates insights from management science, health professions, policy research, and educational assessment.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS WITH ADULT CANCER PATIENTS: A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS

    Thomas J. Meyer;Melvin M. Mark

  • Evaluation : An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs

    Melvin M. Mark;Gary T. Henry;George Julnes

  • Beyond Use: Understanding Evaluation’s Influence on Attitudes and Actions

    Gary T. Henry;Melvin M. Mark

  • The Mechanisms and Outcomes of Evaluation Influence

    Melvin M. Mark;Gary T. Henry

  • The influence of mood state on judgment and action: Effects on persuasion, categorization, social justice, person perception, and judgmental accuracy

    Robert C. Sinclair;Melvin M. Mark

  • Mood-Related Persuasion Depends on (Mis)Attributions

    Robert C. Sinclair;Melvin M. Mark;Gerald L. Clore

  • The effects of mood state on judgemental accuracy: Processing strategy as a mechanism

    Robert C. Sinclair;Melvin M. Mark

  • Color as an environmental processing cue: External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood.

    Alexander S. Soldat;Robert C. Sinclair;Melvin M. Mark

  • Toward an Agenda for Research on Evaluation

    Gary T. Henry;Melvin M. Mark

  • What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice

    Stewart I. Donaldson;Christina A. Christie;Melvin M. Mark

  • Stakeholder-Based Evaluation and Value Judgments:

    Melvin M. Mark;R. Lance Shotland

  • Toward an Integrative Framework for Evaluation Practice

    Melvin M. Mark;Gary T. Henry;George Julnes

  • Realist Evaluation: An Emerging Theory in Support of Practice.

    Gary T. Henry;George Julnes;Melvin M. Mark

  • Evaluation in Action: Interviews With Expert Evaluators

    Jody L. Fitzpatrick;Christina A. Christie;Melvin M. Mark

  • Effect of self-relevance of an event on hindsight bias: The foreseeability of a layoff.

    Melvin M. Mark;Steven Mellor

  • Construct Accessibility and the Misattribution of Arousal: Schachter and Singer Revisited

    Robert C. Sinclair;Curt Hoffman;Melvin M. Mark;Leonard L. Martin

  • Drug prevention in a community setting: a longitudinal study of the relative effectiveness of a three-year primary prevention program in boys & girls clubs across the nation.

    Tena L. St. Pierre;D. Lynne Kaltreider;Melvin M. Mark;Kathryn J. Aikin

  • Mood as Information in Making Attributions to Discrimination

    Gretchen B. Sechrist;Janet K. Swim;Melvin M. Mark

  • Multiple Methods in Program Evaluation

    Melvin M. Mark;R. Lance Shotland

  • A Realist Theory of Evaluation Practice

    Melvin M. Mark;Gary T. Henry;George Julnes

  • Social Science and Social Policy.

    Howard E. Freeman;R. Lance Shotland;Melvin M. Mark

  • Impact analysis for program evaluation

    Melvin M. Mark

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary T. Henry
Gary T. Henry University of Delaware
Lawrence J. Sanna
Lawrence J. Sanna University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Janet K. Swim
Janet K. Swim Pennsylvania State University
William M. K. Trochim
William M. K. Trochim Cornell University
Gerald L. Clore
Gerald L. Clore University of Virginia
Leonard L. Martin
Leonard L. Martin University of Georgia
Thomas D. Borkovec
Thomas D. Borkovec Pennsylvania State University
Laurie Cohen
Laurie Cohen University of Nottingham

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