Use and abuse of internal evaluation
New Directions for Program EvaluationPublished 1 December 1994
Barbara Poitras Duffy
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Abstract
Abstract Although there are many advantages of internal evaluation, there are also disadvantages, the most serious of which is potential misuse by managers who want evaluations to appear to objectively support decisions that have already been made.
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Decision Sciences
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