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The evaluator's role in valuing: Who and with whom

  1. Marvin C. Alkin1,
  2. Anne T. Vo2,
  3. Christina A. Christie3

Article first published online: 9 MAR 2012

DOI: 10.1002/ev.20004

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New Directions for Evaluation

New Directions for Evaluation

Special Issue: Promoting Valuation in the Public Interest: Informing Policies for Judging Value in Evaluation

Volume 2012, Issue 133, pages 29–41, Spring 2012

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Alkin, M. C., Vo, A. T. and Christie, C. A. (2012), The evaluator's role in valuing: Who and with whom. New Directions for Evaluation, 2012: 29–41. doi: 10.1002/ev.20004

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  1. 1

    Professor emeritus, Social Research Methodology Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

  2. 2

    Doctoral candidate, Social Research Methodology Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

  3. 3

    Associate professor, Social Research Methodology Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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  1. Issue published online: 9 MAR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 9 MAR 2012

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Abstract

The act of valuing in an evaluation may be perceived in different ways. We consider the multiple theoretic perspectives that govern an evaluator's behavior and present a typology of evaluator valuing roles. Within this typology we describe three ways in which value judgments are typically reached—by stakeholders alone, stakeholders and evaluators in consort with each other, or by evaluators only. This heuristic offers a more explicit understanding of how valuing occurs in evaluation. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.

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