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Peer reviewedJonas, R. Kirk, Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1999
The nine articles of this theme issue provide overviews of legislative program evaluation and demonstrate the tensions caused by the conflict between utility and rigor in such evaluations. Legislative evaluation is concerned with evaluation utilization because legislators commission evaluations they expect to use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
