Evaluation systems: What are they and why study them?

Evaluation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Leeuw, Frans L ^a   Furubo, Jan Eric ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Swedish Ministry of Finance   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accreditation and evaluation; Evaluation approach; Experiments; Inspection; Institutionalization of evaluation; System of evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149174750     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389007087537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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