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A first step forward: Context assessment
Author(s) -
Conner Ross F.,
Fitzpatrick Jody L.,
Rog Debra J.
Publication year - 2012
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.20029
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , computer science , process (computing) , action (physics) , association (psychology) , management science , process management , data science , epistemology , business , engineering , programming language , paleontology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Abstract In this chapter, we revisit and expand the context framework of Debra Rog, informed by three cases and by new aspects that we have identified. We then propose a way to move the framework into action, making context explicit. Based on the framework's components, we describe and illustrate a process we label context assessment (CA), which provides a means of identifying important contextrelated factors and integrating the implications of these within the three main stages of evaluation. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.