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Consequences of No Child Left Behind on evaluation purpose, design, and impact
Author(s) -
Mabry Linda
Publication year - 2008
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.249
Subject(s) - sine qua non , mandate , adaptability , flexibility (engineering) , evaluation methods , impact evaluation , psychology , management science , computer science , engineering ethics , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , economics , law , business , management , engineering , medicine , pathology , reliability engineering
As an outgrowth of No Child Left Behind's narrow definition of scientifically based research, the priority given to certain quantitative evaluation designs has sparked debate among those in the evaluation community. Federal mandates for particular evaluation methodologies run counter to evaluation practice and to the direction of most evaluation theorists, who advocate for flexibility and adaptability in methods choices. The impact of this mandate for randomized clinical trials as the sine qua non of evaluation methods is not yet discernible, but the potential impact is explored through an analogous example involving the World Bank. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc .