Publisher's Synopsis
This issue explores the many issues in understanding managingevaluation: an omnipresent, if often invisible process guidingevaluation studies, evaluators, other workers and evaluation units.Contributing chapters first define and then illuminate thesematters through four case studies.
The central questions in the domain of managing are:
- Should the evaluation field recognize managing as a coreprofessional expertise?
- Should it promote this by legitimizing the preparation ofexperts and expertise?
- What should the curriculum, pedagogy, and learning sitesbe?
The authors suggest beginning foci, curricula, and pedagogy inmanaging evaluation and hope to stimulate reflection andconversation within our profession on how best to manage evaluationin these various contexts and multiple layers.
This is the 121st volume of the volume of the Jossey-Bassquarterly report series New Directions forEvaluation, an official publication of the AmericanEvaluation Association.
