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Peer reviewedSmith, M. F. – Evaluation Practice, 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
