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On the Role of Values in Program Evaluation

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  • G. Anthony Gorry

    (Baylor College of Medicine)

  • Thelma Jean Goodrich

    (Baylor College of Medicine)

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When participants with varied background and interests join in a collaborative activity, their different viewpoints may make the evaluation of the activity more difficult. The emphasis placed on different kinds of success may differ greatly among project partici pants, causing them to disagree over the worth of components of the program, irrespective of the technical merits of the evaluation of these components. Our experience as evalu ators in a multidisciplinary biomedical research center indicates the need to augment conventional evaluative techniques with ones that explicitly recognize the influence of values on program evaluation.

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  • G. Anthony Gorry & Thelma Jean Goodrich, 1978. "On the Role of Values in Program Evaluation," Evaluation Review, , vol. 2(4), pages 561-572, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:2:y:1978:i:4:p:561-572
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X7800200403
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