ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses evaluation research and how it can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of parenting intervention. The traditional method prefers quantitative over qualitative analysis, as the outcomes are quantified, making it easy to compare and contrast the effectiveness within and between different groups of participants. Nevertheless, the adoption of a pure quantitative or qualitative method is not enough to capture the effectiveness of an intervention. A qualitative method is able to capture unexpected dimensions of outcomes, and can shed light on how participants feel and the processes of their experience of the intervention. The adoption of a mixed method, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, can provide a better picture of the effectiveness of a programme. This chapter also provides the reader with a broader view of different measurements commonly adopted in measuring outcomes of parenting programmes. Furthermore, this chapter discusses different data analysis strategies that are commonly adopted in both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
