Question-Driven Methods or Method-Driven Questions? How We Limit What We Learn by Limiting What We Ask

The “methodologically manic-obsessive” evaluation profession and the metrics- and measures-obsessed lay users of evidence have managed to seriously limit the value of what we learn from evaluation. Evaluation questions asked at the front end are limited by the askers’ narrow understanding of what is...

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Published in:	Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
Main Author:	E. Jane Davidson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University 2015-04-01
Subjects:	evaluation methods evaluation anxiety values
Online Access:	https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/414

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