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Factors influencing the choice of methods in federal evaluation practice
Author(s) -
Chelimsky Eleanor
Publication year - 2007
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.213
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , corporate governance , politics , management science , evaluation methods , engineering ethics , sociology , public relations , political science , computer science , management , economics , law , engineering , artificial intelligence , paleontology , reliability engineering , biology
Abstract A critical historical review of the tensions in American governance places the method choice debate in a broader perspective. This chapter reviews the factors that influence the evaluation questions posed to evaluators and, in turn, the methods choices that stem from it. Political and professional pressures on the evaluators also influence methods choice. Flexibility in methods is considered essential for the evaluator to design a study that considers both the context and the specifics of the question.