Evaluators have an obligation to present clearly the results of their evaluative efforts. Traditionally, such presentations showcase formal written and oral reports, with dispassionate language and graphs, tables, quotes, and vignettes. These traditional forms do not reach all audiences nor are they likely to include the most powerful presentation…

Values-engagement in evaluation involves both describing stakeholder values and prescribing certain values. Describing stakeholder values is common practice in responsive evaluation traditions. Prescribing or advocating particular values is only "explicitly" part of democratic, culturally responsive, critical, and other openly ideological…

Today's public policy discussions increasingly focus on how "networks" of public and private actors collaborate across organizational, sectoral, and geographical boundaries to solve increasingly complex problems. Yet, many of evaluation's key concepts, including the evaluator's role, assume an evaluand that is programmatically or organizationally…

The authors report on an evaluation of a comprehensive school reform initiative in one elementary school intended to provide meaningful and sustainable structure, substance, and support to the school's critical need to improve students' standardized test scores. Serious implementation and communication problems during the year of the evaluation…

Describes the evaluation of an intergenerational storytelling program, offering reflections on the evaluation of practice from an initial evaluation approach of interpretive responses to an ending framework of narrative for the evaluation. (SLD)

Discusses Margaret Mead's evaluation of the first Salzburg Seminar (1947), a forum for international exchange of intellectual ideas and cultural customs. Concludes that Mead's evaluation was highly successful in that it created an evocative representation of the seminar that told readers what it was like for its participants. (SLD)

Discusses contemporary controversies in evaluation that are likely to be of continuing importance in the near future, Including: (1) the nature and role of substantive theory in evaluation; (2) the importance of advances in methods; and (3) the meaning of "success as a profession." Asserts the necessity of positioning evaluation as part of…