The false choice between theory-based evaluation and experimentation, in New Directions for Evaluation - Special Issue: Program Theory in Evaluation: Challenge and Opportunities. Vol. 2000 (87)

Date published: 2000

This chapter offers a critical commentary on theory-based evaluation, stressing its utility as a method of program planning and as an adjunct to experiments but rejecting it as an alternative to experiments.

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