Toward overcoming problems in evaluation research: A beginning perspective on power |
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Authors: | Susan A Ostrander Paul Goldstein Donald Hull |
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Institution: | Case Western Reserve University USA |
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Abstract: | An information feedback model and an ideology of evaluation is posed. The authors' experiences in actually doing evaluation research are then contrasted with the model and ideology. Suggestions are made for closing the gap between reality and the model, primarily by altering the structural constraints that present obstacles to achieving the model. The authors assume that impact on policy is the appropriate criterion for the success of an evlauation, and they conclude that political constraints are primary in preventing evaluation research from having this impact. It is proposed that evaluators need to develop more explicitly political ways of acquiring power of their own in order to maximize such impact. Some ways social researchers might conceptualize and construct an appropriate base of power are considered. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Susan A Ostrander Senior Research Associate Human Services Design Laboratory School of Applied Social Sciences Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio 44106 |
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