Decision‐oriented approaches to program evaluation
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in New Directions for Program Evaluation
- Vol. 1981 (10) , 49-68
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.1275
Abstract
Evaluation is an information‐gathering process, and it can unravel in much the same way as a detective story. Just as Sherlock Holmes redirects his crime‐solving activities as new clues arise, evaluators should be committed to adapting their evaluation activities as new information is obtained.Keywords
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