Abstract
The Coming of Age of Evaluation What Is Fourth Generation Evaluation? Why Should We Choose to Practice It? What Is this Constructivist Paradigm Anyway? Ethics and Politics The Twin Failures of Positivist Science Constructions and Reconstructions of Realities Paradigms and Methodologies The Methodology of Fourth Generation Evaluations Judging the Quality of Fourth Generation Evaluation Putting It All Together so that It Spells E-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-O-N
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PositivismFirst generationEpistemologyQuality (philosophy)SociologyEngineering ethicsEngineeringPhilosophy
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Egon G. Guba,
Yvonna S. Lincoln
(2014).
Fourth Generation Evaluation.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research
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https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n148
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