Who Needs Goals? A Case Study of a Goal-Free Evaluation

Background: Goal-free evaluation (GFE) is any evaluation in which the evaluator conducts the evaluation without knowledge of or reference to predetermined goals and objectives whereas the goal-based evaluator determines merit according to the evaluand’s goal achievement.   Purpose: To examine a G...

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Main Authors: Brandon W. Youker, Alayna Zielinski, Ouen Hunter, Nicholas Bayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University 2016-10-01
Series:Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/448