ROBERT FISCHER

Robert L. Fischer

Co-Director
Center for  Urban Poverty & Community Development
Research Associate Professor

Ph.D.,Vanderbilt University
M.P.P., Vanderbilt University
A.B., Duke University

Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7164
fischer@case.edu

Biographical Sketch   (PDF Format)

Curriculum Vitae   (PDF Format)

Affiliations

• Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty & Social Change -- http://povertycenter.case.edu
• Program Faculty, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations -- http://www.case.edu/mandelcenter/
• Board President, Ohio Program Evaluators' Group -- www.opeg.org
• Program Chair, Social Work Evaluation Topical Interest Group, American Evaluation Association -- www.eval.org

Course List

• MAND 410   Quantitative Analysis for Nonprofit Leaders  
• MAND 422   Organizational Assessment & Program Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations
• SRCH 532   Needs Assessment & Program Evaluation
• SASS 694   Models of Service Delivery
• SSWM 545   Social Program Design

Recent Publications

Fischer, R. L., & Stelter, J. D. (forthcoming). Testing faith: Improving evaluation research on faith-based human services. Social Thought.

Fischer, R. L. (2004). The devil is in the details: Implementing secular outcome measurement methods in faith-based organizations. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 15(1), 25-40. September.

Fischer, R. L. (2004). Assessing client change in individual and family counseling. Research on Social Work Practice, 14(2), 102-111. March.

Fischer, R. L. (2003). School-based family support: Evidence from an exploratory field study. Families in Society, 84(3), 339-347. July/September.

Fischer, R. L. (2003). Getting the word out: Evaluating the effectiveness of a pregnancy prevention campaign for pre-teens. Journal of Community Practice, 10(3), 1-22.

Scholarly Interests

• Methodological interest/expertise:
• Program evaluation
• Social/behavioral intervention research Mixed methods approach with
• Quantitative emphasis (e.g., administrative data, survey studies)
• Research synthesis techniques/meta-analysis
• Content interest/expertise:
• Child and family interventions
• Nonprofit programming
• Faith-based human services
• Public policy studies

How I chose this profession

In my undergraduate and graduate training in public policy, I came to see the importance of understanding the role of evaluation in guiding the policy process and as a way to inform program development.