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Peer reviewedCaplan, Nathan – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1980
Ethical issues; institutional characteristics and organizational arrangements; and roles and skills of the researcher must be considered if the government is to apply social science research findings more widely for the public good. (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104, single issue, $6.95.) (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Government Role, Information Utilization, Program Evaluation, Research Needs
Peer reviewedWeiss, Carol H. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
The promise of the stakeholder approach to evaluation lies in its potential to counter criticism that evaluation is too narrow, unrealistic in its standards for success, unfair to program staff and participants, and irrelevant to decision makers. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, History
Peer reviewedStake, Robert E. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1983
Deliberately involving urban education stakeholders in the Cities-in-Schools evaluation study improved the utility of the findings for formative evaluation stakeholders but not for summative evaluation stakeholders. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
