An odd couple with promise: Researchers and practitioners in evaluation settings

Family Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 341-347

  Myers Walls, Judith A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Practitioners; Researchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034214543     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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