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Publication Date: 1994
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Evaluation: Review of the Past, Preview of the Future.
Smith, M. F.
Evaluation Practice, v15 n3 p215-27 Oct 1994
This paper summarized contributors' ideas about evaluation as a field and where it is going. Topics discussed were qualitative versus quantitative debate; evaluation's purpose; professionalization; program failure; program development; evaluators as advocates; evaluation knowledge; evaluation expansion; and methodology and design. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Expectation, Futures (of Society), History, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Level, Objectives, Prediction, Program Development, Qualitative Research, Research and Development, Research Design, Research Methodology
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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