Evaluation foundations revisited : cultivating a life of the mind for practice / Thomas A. Schwandt.

Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a ""transdiscipline, "&q...

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Main Author: Schwandt, Thomas A. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2015]
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