Presentation
Values and Goal-Free Evaluation: A Case Study
Western Michigan University’s Evaluation Center Evaluation - Café Series
(2005)
Abstract
How does a goal-free evaluator deal with values? Which values? Whose values? This presentation argues that the goal-free evaluator takes a consumerist perspective. Thus the evaluator's values are in serving the program's consumers and satisfying the consumers' needs.
Keywords
- goal,
- goal-free,
- values,
- evaluate,
- evaluation,
- consumer,
- need
Disciplines
Publication Date
2005
Citation Information
Brandon W. Youker Ph.D. "Values and Goal-Free Evaluation: A Case Study" Western Michigan University’s Evaluation Center - Evaluation Café Series. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jan. 2005.