Linking Auditing and Meta-Evaluation: Enhancing Quality in Applied Research (Applied Social Research Methods Series) - Softcover

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Thomas A. Schwandt is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds appointments in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research. Previously, he was a faculty member at Indiana University (IU) and a fellow of the IU Poynter Center for Ethics and American Institutions, a member of the faculty in medical evaluation at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was employed as an evaluator and organizational consultant in the private sector. He has lectured on interpretive methodologies and theory of evaluation in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and held visiting appointments at both research institutions and universities in those countries. His papers on qualitative methodology, issues in the philosophy of social science, and evaluation have appeared in a variety of books and journals. His latest book is Evaluation Practice Reconsidered, which is scheduled for publication in 2002.