Studied the perspectives of 15 individuals in 3 different stakeholder groups in the context of training evaluation: training sponsors, training providers, and training participants. Discusses the differing perspectives in terms of a three-dimensional schema of collaborative inquiry and evaluation and discusses implications for training and program…

Used concept mapping and pattern matching in exploratory research to investigate differences in stakeholder perceptions of training results and evaluation. Group perceptions and the individual perceptions of 39 managers, product developers, and training professionals show that all stakeholder groups agreed reasonably well about the importance of…

Results of a survey of 564 Canadian and American evaluators and evaluation project descriptions provided by a subsample of 348 evaluators indicate that evaluators support a utilization-focused, stakeholder service orientation and think that maximizing evaluation use is a primary responsibility of evaluators. (SLD)