School-based educational innovations: Case illustrations of context-sensitive evaluations

Family and Community Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-79

  Altschuld, James W ^a   Kumar, David D ^b   Smith, Dennis W ^c   Jacqueline D Good, Way ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Educational innovations; Evaluation; Health programs; School

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039602776     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-199904000-00008     Document Type: Article

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