The Future of Evaluation: a retrospective

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This article gives an account of the 5th International Conference on Educational Evaluation. It represents discrepant views of contemporary evaluative research, ranging from the ‘disinterested’ approach of Stake, through the pragmatic interventions of Stem, to the ‘committed’ standpoint of Troyna‐‐ the ‘hands‐off’, ‘hands‐on’ and the ‘hands‐up’ schools of evaluation. The authors offer a deconstruction of the conference debates and explore the reconceptualisation of evaluation roles and practices. They conclude (somewhat playfully) that the range of emotional and intellectual responses may be characterised by ‘post‐modern grief’.

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