What Makes an Evaluation Useful? Reflections from Experience in Large Organizations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12470971
AutoresPatrick G Grasso (Operations Evaluation Department, The World Bank, 1818 H St. NW, Room H3-303, Washington, DC 20433, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas507-514
Fecha de publicación2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/109821400302400408
OpenAlexW1996230603
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas2

Evaluation units found in large organizations confront a number of impediments to the use of their findings and recommendations. These derive from both the formal roles they play and their own operating styles and processes. Drawing on experience at the U.S. General Accounting Office and the World Bank, this paper suggests that to improve the usefulness—and use—of their work, such units need to pay careful attention to the multiplicity of audiences they necessarily address, the divergent information needs of those audiences, and the timeliness of their work

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