Fourth Generation Evaluation - Hardcover

Guba, Egon; Lincoln, Yvonna S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803932359 ISBN 13: 9780803932357

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Fourth generation evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. The authors highlight the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators - politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions - and blame reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm for failure. They show how fourth generation evaluation solves persistent problems in programme evaluation, comprehensively describe the differences between the positivist and constructivist paradigms of research, and provide a practical plan of the steps and processes in conducting a fourth generation evaluation.

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Fourth generation evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. The authors of this book point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators - politics, ethical dilemmas, fuzzy data, inconclusive conclusions - and lay the blame for failure and non-utilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research.

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• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0803932359
• ISBN 13: 9780803932357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296