The End of Methodology? a Review Essay On Evaluation Research Methods

E) VALUATION research was one of the largest growth industries in the social sciences during the 1970s. With the current decline in federal expenditures and resultant reductions in appropriation for applied research, we can expect an increased interest in performing technically sound and politically persuasive' evaluations to justify the maintenance of existing programs and to make planned social change efficient and cost effective. Under present economic and political conditions, bad and/or useless evaluations will not be tolerated or funded. Thus, the last few years have seen an increase in the literature about evaluation research methods. Fore-