Evaluating Program Effectiveness: Validity and Decision-Making in Outcome Evaluation

About Marc T. Braverman

Marc T. Braverman is a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University and an Extension Specialist in OSUs Family and Community Health program. Dr. Braverman has published in the areas of evaluation theory applied research methods measurement and survey methodology tobacco control policy health promotion adolescent health and other topics. He was the Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach in OSUs College of Health and Human Sciences from 2005-2011. Prior to coming to OSU Dr. Braverman was an Extension Specialist at the University of California Davis (1983-2005) and an evaluator at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (now Education Northwest) in Portland Oregon (1981-83). At UC Davis he established and directed the Tobacco Control Evaluation Center in 2004 with funding from the California Department of Health Services. In 1998-99 he was a visiting researcher at Norways National Institute of Public Health in Oslo Norway. Dr. Braverman has received grants as PI or co-Investigator from the National Cancer Institute the US Department of Agriculture the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the David and Lucille Packard Foundation the California Department of Health Services and other funders. He co-edited the book Foundations and evaluation: Contexts and practices for effective philanthropy (Jossey-Bass 2004). He has led numerous program and policy evaluations and has taught graduate classes on program evaluation adolescent development and research methods. He has a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.