2012
Evaluation for the real world, the impact of evidence in policy making, Colin Palfrey, Paul Thomas, Ceri Phillips, Policy Press (Bristol University), 2012
2000
Personalizing Evaluation, Saville Ian Kushner, Sage Publications, 2000
1994
Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation, Kathryn E. Newcomer, Harry P. Hatry, Joseph S. Wholey, 1994, 2004, 2010
1990
Program Evaluation and the Management of Government, patterns and prospect across eight nations, Ray C. Rist, Transaction publishers, 1990
1981
The logic of evaluation, Michael Scriven, EdgePress.
1979
Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Gary T. Henry, Sage publication, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2019
1978
Social experiments, Henry W. Riecken, Robert F. Boruch, Annual review of sociology, 1978
1977
Hearings before the committee on human ressources, United State Senate, ninety-fifth congress, first session on oversight hearings on the scope and extent of the federal government’s efforts to evaluate its programs, october 6 and 27, 1977
1975
Handbook of evaluation research, Marcia Guttentag, Elmer Louis Struening, Sage publication, 1975
1974
Program Evaluation and Administrative Theory, Orville F. Poland, Public Administration Review, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Jul. – Aug., 1974), pp. 333-338
Social Experimentation, 1st Edition, a Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention, Henry W. Riecken, Robert F. Boruch, Academic Press, 1974

1972
Evaluating Social Programs: Theory, Practice, and Politics. Edited by Peter H. Rossi and Walter Williams. New York: Seminar Press, 1972. 326 pp
The Self-Evaluating Organization, Aaron Wildavsky, Public Administration Review, 1972
1970
Federal evaluation policy: analyzing the effects of public programs, Joseph S. Wholey, Washington, The Urban Institute, 1970
1967
Evaluative Research: Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action Programme, Russell Sage Foundation, Edward A. Suchman, 1967
1966
Social indicators and sample surveys by Raymond A. Bauer, The Public Opinion Quarterly, 1966
The state of the nation: social systems accounting, Bertram Myron Gross, Tavistock Publications, 1966
1963
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research, Donald Campbel, Julian Stanley, John Hopkins university, 1963
1954
Research Methods in the Behavioural Sciences, Leon Festinger, Daniel Katz, , Dryden Press, 1954
1951
Research methods in social relations, Marie Jahoda, Morton Deutsch, Stuart Cook, the Dryden press, 1951 (part 1: basic processes, part 2: selected techniques)

1935
The techniques of market research from the standpoint of a psychologist, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Arthur Kornhauser, presented at the Institute of management meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, May 24, 1935