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• catalog abstract ""Evaluators are in the business of reasoning their way toward legitimate conclusions that clients and other stakeholder groups can use. In everyday practice, evaluators collect and combine evidence to draw conclusions about something or someone. Reasoning is the basis for what evaluators do and what they tell their clients to do. But is the reasoning sound? Evaluative conclusions are often sources of controversy, and the inferences drawn from evidence always have potential loopholes for error. In what ways can the conclusions resulting from evaluations be trusted? How can evaluators reliably combine evidence from multiple sources into a final judgment about the merit or worth of something. How, and in what ways, can evaluative conclusions be justified in an objective way similar to empirical conclusions? Obtaining answers to these perennial questions facing evaluators in every evaluation is the field's greatest unmet challenge." "To stimulate debate and encourage more scholarship in this area the authors in this volume of New Directions for Evaluation grapple with some of the thorny problems of how to better understand the reasoning process that is used to establish evaluative conclusions. The reader will leave this discussion thinking more clearly and critically about logical practice, appreciating the central role of reasoning in the successful practice of evaluation, and pondering the various avenues by which to contribute to future developments."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b8843140.
• catalog contributor b8843141.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description ""Evaluators are in the business of reasoning their way toward legitimate conclusions that clients and other stakeholder groups can use. In everyday practice, evaluators collect and combine evidence to draw conclusions about something or someone. Reasoning is the basis for what evaluators do and what they tell their clients to do. But is the reasoning sound? Evaluative conclusions are often sources of controversy, and the inferences drawn from evidence always have potential loopholes for error. In what ways can the conclusions resulting from evaluations be trusted? How can evaluators reliably combine evidence from multiple sources into a final judgment about the merit or worth of something. How, and in what ways, can evaluative conclusions be justified in an objective way similar to empirical conclusions? Obtaining answers to these perennial questions facing evaluators in every evaluation is the field's greatest unmet challenge." "To stimulate debate and encourage more scholarship in this area the authors in this volume of New Directions for Evaluation grapple with some of the thorny problems of how to better understand the reasoning process that is used to establish evaluative conclusions. The reader will leave this discussion thinking more clearly and critically about logical practice, appreciating the central role of reasoning in the successful practice of evaluation, and pondering the various avenues by which to contribute to future developments."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The influence of societal games on the methodology of evaluative inquiry / Nick L. Smith -- Establishing evaluative conclusions: a distinction between general and working logic / Deborah M. Fournier -- Putting things together coherently: logic and justice / Ernest R. House -- The logic of evaluation and evaluation practice / Michael Scriven -- Informal logic and reasoning in evaluation / J. Anthony Blair -- Purpose, context, and synthesis: can we avoid relativism? / Hugh G. Petrie -- Reasoning in evaluation: challenges for the practitioner / Debra J. Rog.".
• catalog extent "104 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Reasoning in evaluation.".
• catalog identifier "0787999482".
• catalog isFormatOf "Reasoning in evaluation.".
• catalog isPartOf "Jossey-Bass education series".
• catalog isPartOf "New directions for evaluation ; no. 68.".
• catalog isPartOf "New directions for evaluation, 0164-7989 ; no. 68 (Winter 1995)".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Pub.,".
• catalog relation "Reasoning in evaluation.".
• catalog subject "Evaluation research (Social action programs)".
• catalog subject "H62 R42 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "The influence of societal games on the methodology of evaluative inquiry / Nick L. Smith -- Establishing evaluative conclusions: a distinction between general and working logic / Deborah M. Fournier -- Putting things together coherently: logic and justice / Ernest R. House -- The logic of evaluation and evaluation practice / Michael Scriven -- Informal logic and reasoning in evaluation / J. Anthony Blair -- Purpose, context, and synthesis: can we avoid relativism? / Hugh G. Petrie -- Reasoning in evaluation: challenges for the practitioner / Debra J. Rog.".
• catalog title "Reasoning in evaluation : inferential links and leaps / Deborah M. Fournier, editor.".
• catalog type "text".