Evaluation Practice and Theory
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12471018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura C Leviton (0000-0001-8116-539X, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 238-242 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1098214015573070 |
| OpenAlex | W2320123125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Debra Rog presented the 2014 Eleanor Chelimsky Forum address, offering ways to integrate evaluation theory and practice by abundant use of practice examples. These examples illustrate the effective use of the Ladder of Abstraction from semantics, working from the concrete to the abstract and back again
Abstraction · Epistemology · Management science · Practice theory · Programming language · Semantics (computer science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |