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Knowledge, interests and the many meanings of evaluation: a developmental perspective
Author(s) -
Albæk E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 0907-2055
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2397.1998.tb00208.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , engineering ethics , management science , sociology , epistemology , state (computer science) , political science , computer science , engineering , philosophy , algorithm , artificial intelligence
The problems addressed by evaluation research and practice are the problems that emerged in the efforts to form, consolidate, and reform the modern welfare state. Each of these problems are linked with stakeholders with divergent and often conflicting interests. One of the major characteristics of the history of evaluation research has been efforts to develop evaluation theory, design and methodology that are responsive to the knowledge interests of different stakeholders.