Evaluation Utilization Evaluation

This volume of New Directions for Program Evaluation serves as a vehicle to report the observations and practices of evaluators from a number of perspectives regarding the utilization of evaluations. Topical interest groups from the American Evaluation Association are represented in these chapters as well as authors engaged in research on evaluation. The sourcebook represents a review of factors that promote or inhibit utilization and a compAndium of new directions in examining utilization. It provides a forum for the continued examination of the issues and practices associated with the utilization of program evaluationsincluding a review of old concepts as well as new and emergent ideas about utilization. This is the 39th issue of New directions for Program Evaluation. For more infromation on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.