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Looking at the evidence: What variations in practice might indicate
Author(s) -
Datta Loisellin
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.214
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , politics , public relations , political science , management science , public administration , engineering ethics , sociology , social science , law , economics , paleontology , biology , engineering
This chapter presents the findings from a review of the practice of evaluation in federal agencies as an attempt to inform policies on method choice. The author explores whether federal agencies differ in their approaches to evaluation design and the factors that influence these differences. The nature of the programs, agency culture, evaluator training and experience, and the politics of methodology all emerge as possible context‐appropriate influences on method choice.