Postpositivist Evaluation: Give me a for Instance

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Early educational reformers attempted to "take the schools out of politics " and turn over educational decision making to educational administrators, who, it was assumed, would base decisions on knowledge generated by research and evaluation rather than on political considerations. Postpositivist epistemology, however, suggests that all knowledge is political. This article briefly reviews the postpositivists' argument for linking knowledge and politics, attempts to rethink the notion of evaluation to make it consistent with a postpositivist perspective, translates this reconceptualized view of evaluation into specific procedures, and describes what happened when these procedures were put into practice.

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