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Peer reviewedThompson, Randal Joy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
Using a case study approach, it is argued that evaluators play a critical role as change agents in foreign assistance projects directed at building Third World organizations. Evaluators affect stakeholder issues, commitment to project objectives, judgments of project accomplishments, consensus among project implementors, and perspective of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Developing Nations, Evaluators
Peer reviewedRogers, Patricia J.; Hough, Gary – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1995
Explores implications for evaluation practice of using five different perspectives on organizations, drawing on the four models of social program implementation developed by R. F. Elmore (1978). It is argued that evaluation will only really be effective when its focus, methods, and management reflect realistic assumptions about how organizations…
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
