Evaluation Thesaurus

Download or read book Evaluation Thesaurus written by Michael Scriven and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leaders in evaluation, Evaluation Thesaurus, Fourth Edition, provides readers with a quick analysis of the leading concepts, positions, acronyms, processes, techniques, and checklists in the field of evaluation. Containing nearly 2000 entries, Michael Scriven's thesaurus offers professionals and students a guide for understanding the relation of evaluation to the doctrine of value-free social science, ways to integrate the parts of multi-dimensional evaluations into an overall rating, the realities of evaluation consulting, and techniques for the use of spreadsheets in qualitative evaluation.