Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: Issues and Possible Answers

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-65

  Anastas, Jeane W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation research; Methodology; Qualitative evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345801341     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731503257870     Document Type: Article

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