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The false choice between theory‐based evaluation and experimentation
Author(s) -
Cook Thomas D.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.1179
Subject(s) - adjunct , computer science , evaluation methods , management science , program evaluation , reliability engineering , philosophy , economics , statistics , mathematics , linguistics , engineering
This chapter offers a critical commentary on theory‐based evaluation, stressing its utility as a method of program planning and as an adjunct to experiments but rejecting it as an alternative to experiments.