The roles of evaluation in academic settings

Nick L. Smith

doi:10.1016/0149-7189(90)90031-Q

The roles of evaluation in academic settings

Nick L. Smith

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Academic evaluation is not a discipline, but a field of professional practice. It is not in jeopardy in many academic settings because it fulfills a variety of valued roles other than the production of generalizable knowledge. Although a theory of evaluation practice will not transform evaluation into a discipline, it is needed to guide practice and to improve methodological development. Evaluation utilization is likely to be an important theme in any such theory of evaluation practice.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	425-427
Number of pages	3
Journal	Evaluation and Program Planning
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0149-7189(90)90031-Q
State	Published - 1990

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