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Honey, I shrunk the evaluator: Reflections on the 1990 National Evaluation Conference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Max Liddell  and
Margaret Liddell
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Abstract

The 1990 National Evaluation Conference, a conference devoted to current developments in evaluation, left the authors with many concerns. This paper, after describing a few of the contributions which were of relevance to human services, explores some of the dilemmas. Is program evaluation a research activity or not? What are the implications of the commercialisation of the public sector? Is evaluation a tool to induce employee conformity? These questions are raised, and their implications for human services discussed.

Type
Meeting Report
Information
Children Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 10 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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