From disenchantment to renewal
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New Wave
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Evaluation as a free-standing discipline arose out of the ashes of World War II, a time of optimism, when government turned to the academy to guide public policy. The evaluation pioneers shared a bracing vision: a search for truth in the public interest. Seventy years later the glitter has faded, and disenchantment has taken hold. Evaluation, a quintessential public good, has become a market good, and eminent evaluation thinkers are asking the same questions about evaluation that they have been routinely asking of others—with sobering results. Yet, countervailing currents and turbulent streams lie just below the surface. Once a tipping point is reached, a new wave of evaluation diffusion will begin to curl. What might it look like?
2009 ◽
Vol 34
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pp. 187-223
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Social Psychologists' Expertise in the Public Interest: Civilian Morale Research During World War II
2010 ◽
Vol 54
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pp. 53-77
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2017 ◽
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2021 ◽
pp. 036119812110266
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