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Building a Better Body of Evidence: New Opportunities to Strengthen Evaluation Utilization
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Ginsburg, Alan; Rhett, Nancy – American Journal of Evaluation, 2003
A useful evaluation of an education program is one that adds to the body of timely, relevant evidence to increase the likelihood that policy decisions improve program performance. This definition focuses on performance rather than change and recognizes that studies can't guarantee the use of their findings but can only increase the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Program Effectiveness, Inferences, Scientific Methodology