Retrospective and Prospective on Program Impact Assessment.

Campbell, Donald T.

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Publication Date: 1994

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Retrospective and Prospective on Program Impact Assessment.

Campbell, Donald T.

Evaluation Practice, v15 n3 p291-98 Oct 1994

In spite of many inherent problems, impact evaluation should remain an integral part of program evaluation, both because impact evaluation brings its budget justification with it, and because its focus on causal hypotheses is an essential part of evaluation. Methodology based on the author's body of work is reviewed. (SLD)

Descriptors: Budgeting, Causal Models, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Futures (of Society), Hypothesis Testing, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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