title: State-level evaluations of school programs funded under the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.
abstract: Although the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 and the 1989 Amendments to the Act require states to evaluate their drug-education programs, no guidelines for conducting these evaluations have been produced, and little has been reported on how the states are conducting such evaluations. In this article, the results of a telephone survey on current state-level efforts to evaluate school programs funded under the Act are reported. Some states report studies of the implementation of the program and some report drug- and alcohol-use surveys. Together, these two types of evaluation efforts form the foundation of an approach for conducting evaluations under the Act. Reasons are presented why experimental and quasi-experimental designs might be inappropriate and impractical for the evaluations, and an evaluation approach linking program implementation findings and drug- and alcohol-use survey results is suggested.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii, Mãnoa, Honolulu.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Brandon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006266:Health Education / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs