Fundamental issues in evaluation /
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| Imprint: | New York : Guilford Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | xx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6662745 |
| Summary: | Providing state-of-the-art perspectives on what evaluation is, its purpose, and how to ensure it is done well, this book brings together major evaluation researchers from a variety of social and behavioral science disciplines. Each chapter identifies a fundamental issue facing the field today; considers its implications for theory, method, practice, or the profession; and explores one or more approaches to dealing with the issue. Among the topics addressed are the nature of expertise in evaluation, how to build a better evidence base for evaluation theory, promoting cultural competence in evaluation, how to synthesize evaluation research findings, ways to involve stakeholders in decision making, and much more.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781593853426 1593853424 9781593856045 1593856040 |
