Establishing evaluative conclusions: A distinction between general and working logic
New Directions for EvaluationPublished 1 December 1995
Deborah M. Fournier
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Evaluators are in the business of establishing the defensibility of empirical and normative claims about some phenomenon to clients using evidence and reasoning that leads to legitimate evaluative conclusions.
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Abstract To justify evaluative conclusions, evaluators follow both a general and a working logic.
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