Empowerment Evaluation, Objectivist Evaluation, and Evaluation Standards: Where the Future of Evaluation Should Not Go and Where It Needs to Go.

Stufflebeam, Daniel L.

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Publication Date: 1994

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Empowerment Evaluation, Objectivist Evaluation, and Evaluation Standards: Where the Future of Evaluation Should Not Go and Where It Needs to Go.

Stufflebeam, Daniel L.

Evaluation Practice, v15 n3 p321-38 Oct 1994

Serious issues in empowerment evaluation are articulated to help ensure that this enthusiastically presented concept will not mislead evaluators and result in lowering the field's professional standards. Analysis and recommendations are provided for the adoption, development, and implementation of an objectivist evaluation that conforms to accepted standards. (SLD)

Descriptors: Definitions, Empowerment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Futures (of Society), Standards

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Language: English

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