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Why Do We Have Evaluation? Is Evaluation A Discipline? How Much Impact Does Evaluation Have On Government, Education, Or Politics? Can Social Problems, Such As Poverty, Be Solved Like Engineering Problems By The Application Of Resources And Intelligence? By Exploring How Evaluation Has Evolved As A Discipline, Science, And Profession, House Examines How Evaluation Impacts Modern Societies And The Issues That This Impact (social Force) Raises For Evaluators. Addressing Such Issues As Pluralism Versus Managerialism, Quantitative Versus Qualitative Methodologies, The Purpose Of Higher Education For Knowledge Production Versus Educating People For Professions, Clientism, And Multicultural Concerns, House Traces How Evaluation Has Evolved As A Basis For Determining Where The Field Should Go - And, How. Introduction: Evaluation In Advanced Capitalist Society -- Trends -- Structural Changes -- Conceptual Changes -- Mixed Methods And The Unraveling Of Consensus -- Utilization, Values, And Politics -- Evaluation As An Institution And Profession -- Emergence Of Evaluation As An Institution -- Evaluation As A Profession -- Among Other Professions -- Evaluation's Future -- Government And Evalu

Author

Ernest R. House

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803949966

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences