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Peer reviewedBickman, Leonard – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1987
Ten functions of program theory are reviewed: contributing to social science knowledge; assisting policymakers, discriminating between theory failure and program failure, identifying the problem and target group, providing program implementation description, uncovering unintended effects, specifying intervening variables, improving formative use…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Models, Problem Solving
