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Peer reviewedLipsey, Mark W. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1997
It is argued that, although thousands of evaluations have been conducted of social interventions, little has been done to cumulate those results to guide intervention architects. Building social intervention theory and meta analyses are suggested as ways to unify this knowledge and make it useful. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Intervention, Knowledge Level, Meta Analysis
