Journal Article10.2307/447919
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
John G. Heilman,Michael Quinn Patton +1 more
- 01 Dec 1979
- Vol. 32, Iss: 4, pp 509
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TL;DR: Utilization-focused evaluation begins with the premise that evaluations should be judged by their utility and actual use; therefore, evaluators should facilitate the evaluation process and design any evaluation with careful consideration of how everything that is done, from beginning to end, will affect use.
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