Metaphors for Evaluation: Sources of New Methods (New Perspectives in Evaluation, V.1) - Hardcover

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Seeks out new perspectives and methods for the field of evaluation -- the assessment of the efficacy of social programmes -- by comparing it with seven other disciplines: investigative reporting, law, architecture, geography, philosophy, literary and film criticism and water colour painting. This fresh approach yields new conceptual distinctions for the profession and new ways of working.

'There is no shortage of provocative ideas...This book on evaluation metaphors is ripe with the kinds of ideas that can enlarge the repertoire of creative evaluators.' -- Evaluation News, May 1982

'...This volume, Metaphors for Evaluation, is a creative attempt to develop new conceptual distinctions and methodological tools to improve the process of evaluation. It is an innovative and timely book which can help to broaden the reader's ideas about evaluation.' -- Evaluation and Program Planning, Vol 5, 1982

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