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Methodological pluralism: The gold standard of STEM evaluation
Author(s) -
Lawrenz Frances,
Huffman Douglas
Publication year - 2006
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.176
Subject(s) - conceptualization , pluralism (philosophy) , variety (cybernetics) , evaluation methods , management science , engineering ethics , field (mathematics) , computer science , epistemology , engineering , artificial intelligence , philosophy , reliability engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
This chapter presents the conceptualization that scientific evaluation is a comprehensive concept including both experimental and nonexperimental methods and that a variety of methods are preferred for STEM evaluation and for the field of evaluation as a whole.
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