This thesis evaluates the evaluations of federal institutional training to determine whether these produce reliable feedback on program performance. It is based on evaluations of the Canada Manpower Training Program (CMTP), the National Institutional Training Program (NITP) and the Direct Purchase Option (DPO) of the Canadian Job Strategy (CJS). Comparisons among the tools and techniques used in evaluating these three programs reveal that improved methods have been incorporated over time. However, a review of United States literature on social program evaluation reveals that these upgrades have not kept pace with research advances in this area. This thesis concludes that the methods used in evaluating federal institutional training and problems in their application have prevented evaluators from reliably assessing the performance of the CMTP, NITP and DPO programs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68146 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Winters, Jennifer |
| Contributors | Ingerman, Sid (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Economics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001397481, proquestno: AAIMM94403, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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