An Optimistic View of Evaluation.

Bickman, Leonard

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Publication Date: 1994

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An Optimistic View of Evaluation.

Bickman, Leonard

Evaluation Practice, v15 n3 p255-59 Oct 1994

The author's optimistic view of evaluation in the future includes increased utilization, especially in the private sector; more professionalization, with potential for conflict; more academic program development; more use in policy; increase in the use of complex methods; and more involvement in program development. (SLD)

Descriptors: Conflict, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Futures (of Society), Participation, Policy Formation, Prediction, Program Development, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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