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| | Introduction to Evaluation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Evaluation is a methodological area that is closely related to, but distinguishable from more traditional social research. |
 | | Evaluation utilizes many of the same methodologies used in traditional social research, but because evaluation takes place within a political and organizational context, it requires group skills, management ability, political dexterity, sensitivity to multiple stakeholders and other skills that social research in general does not rely on as much. |
 | | Formative evaluations strengthen or improve the object being evaluated -- they help form it by examining the delivery of the program or technology, the quality of its implementation, and the assessment of the organizational context, personnel, procedures, inputs, and so on. |
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