Technical Quality versus User Responsiveness in Evaluation Practice.

Greene, Jennifer C.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Technical Quality versus User Responsiveness in Evaluation Practice.

Greene, Jennifer C.

Evaluation and Program Planning, v13 n3 p267-74 1990

Use-oriented approaches to evaluation have been challenged by contentions that the responsiveness of such evaluations undermines their technical quality. This discussion analyzes purported conflicts between these evaluation criteria of utility and accuracy by examining underlying assumptions related to evaluation's purpose and politics. (TJH)

Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Meta Analysis, Politics, Program Evaluation, Quality Control, Use Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association (Boston, MA, October 14-17, 1987).