3Focusing Evaluative Enquiry: Evaluation Forms and Approaches
Over the past two decades theorists have put forward a range of evaluation models. A model can be thought of as a prescription for undertaking an evaluation, based on certain theoretical assumptions. Many models represented the preferences of particular theorists, and their number proliferated as more social scientists entered the evaluation arena. Some attempts were made to classify them in terms of elements such as assumptions, methodology, and extent of involvement of stakeholders (Stufflebeam & Webster 1983).
Despite these attempts, we have found that many graduate students and commissioners of evaluation were confused about the relationship between a model and the solution to ...
